"Very well, then step behind the curtain here, dearie, so I can measure your sizes. I bet we'll have to amend that dress entirely differently now. That's right." Anne cast Lottie one last grateful look before following the lady. After a minute or so the lady came back to fetch two different sizes of corsets, and then after another two minutes while the black dress.

When Anne returned, the dress fell a great deal more graciously. She could hardly believe her eyes when she looked into the mirror. Though she was still far more plump than she would like and a far cry from the hourglass figure that was fashionable, her curves were more defined and she looked far more like a young woman than before. She blushed at what she saw and turned her eyes to for approval.

The lady meanwhile put the old heavily patched and ragged corset on a table. Definitely a young girl's corset.