Even when she goes into the room and pulls closed the partition, the knife in her hair stays there. She isn't much to letting down her guard.
Without surprise either, it takes her a good deal of time with help from Cinna, to get out of her dress, too. (She assumes he finds her appealing, yet he can sense that he is not one of the men who wants her sexually. It's nice, actually.
Then she gets herself into this "sundress" over her corset and knickers, though the knickers have to go as the dress is shorter than the knickers!
Cinna is needed again to help her "zip" the dress.
Then she can look at herself in the mirror turning this way and that.
Well. This is quite something, isn't it. There are her legs, shapely and pale, and her arms, also pale and rounded as is the fashion of her time (unlike the muscle and unhealthy thinness of those in the hotel). She turns a slow circle and turns to Cinna - what does he think?
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Without surprise either, it takes her a good deal of time with help from Cinna, to get out of her dress, too. (She assumes he finds her appealing, yet he can sense that he is not one of the men who wants her sexually. It's nice, actually.
Then she gets herself into this "sundress" over her corset and knickers, though the knickers have to go as the dress is shorter than the knickers!
Cinna is needed again to help her "zip" the dress.
Then she can look at herself in the mirror turning this way and that.
Well. This is quite something, isn't it. There are her legs, shapely and pale, and her arms, also pale and rounded as is the fashion of her time (unlike the muscle and unhealthy thinness of those in the hotel). She turns a slow circle and turns to Cinna - what does he think?