A Most Faithful Companion (Supposed Scandal #4)

A Most Faithful Companion (Supposed Scandal #4)

Author: Kasey Stockton Listening Length: 7h 39m
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She cannot afford scandal. He cannot forget her. Nine years ago, Emma Darling chose duty—and lost everything for it. With her parents gone, her standing in ruins, and her dreams packed away, she has survived by becoming an unimposing companion to the kind, if meddlesome, Mrs. Buckley. It is not the life she imagined, ...

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CHAPTER SEVEN

Briarstead boasted not only a modiste, but a milliner as well, an extravagance for a village as small as theirs. Both were well-trained and turned out excellent gowns and bonnets, and Mrs. Buckley felt no trial in supplying them with equal patronage.

Mrs. Jackson, the modiste, welcomed them into her shop and began pulling fabrics and designs the moment they informed her of the purpose of their errand.

They set about designing dinner gowns, day dresses, a lavender pelisse, and a fur-lined cape in varying shades of white and lavender with black trim.