"I suppose it falls under the carpenter's adage to measure twice and cut once?" Wait, no, she doesn't want to get measured again. Crap. "You must have found all kinds of diplomatic ways to handle telling someone they've gained weight."

"If the pattern can match up that'd be great. But somehow I doubt my head is so perfectly shaped and sized for that to work." The flashes of light and color from the buttons are very distracting, Amelia. Verity doesn't want to miss out on looking at the pretty things. "If you can manage that, though? I'll probably be back for a lot more."

Verity's finally coming to understand the obsession with ribbons in Jane Austen novels.