The servants were all very kind, and discreet. She had had a wonderful scented bath and rose petals were strewn about her chamber, in deference to her wedded state. Her maid, appointed by the earl himself, had had her gowns unpacked and pressed in record time, so that she had a considerable choice to agonize over when her bath was at an end and the time had come, at last, to change for dinner. She chose something simple, a stark contrast to the grand confection she had been wearing earlier. It was a gown of pastel blue trimmed in silver and embroidered, at the hems, in a darker blue to match her eyes. Lady Hastings had been positively triumphant with the result, but Amaryllis felt strangely nervous and rather shy. This was to be her first dinner alone with her husband and it was natural that she feel a constriction in her throat as she was led down the main staircase to the dining room below. Stephen was waiting for her, equally tense, but when he saw his wife he smiled and she felt all that awkward shyness melting away.
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