Noel Streatfeild

"Do you live permanently in yellow evening frocks and court gowns, or have you anything else?" Annabel laughed shakily. "Of course. My own clothes." "Then go and put them on. Lovely ladies who fall over their trains need cocktails to restore them. And that's just what I'm going to take you to have." Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her family's finances. When one of the "mannequins" employed...