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Lady Kirkbank and the dressmaker discussed Lesbia's charms as calmly as
if she had been out of the room.
'What do you think of her figure?' asked Lady Kirkbank.
'One cannot criticise what does not exist,' replied the dressmaker, in
French. 'The young lady has no figure. She has evidently been brought up
in the country.'
And then with rapid bird-like movements, and with her head on one side,
Seraphine measured Lesbia's waist and bust, muttering little argotic
expressions _sotto voce_ as she did so.
'Waist three inches too large, shoulders six inches too narrow,' she
said decisively, and she dictated some figures to one of the damsels,
who wrote them down in an order-book.
'What does that mean?' asked Lesbia, not at all approving of such
cavalier treatment.
'Only that Seraphine will make your corsets the right size,' answered
Lady Kirkbank.
'What? Three inches too small for my waist, and six too wide for my
shoulders?'
'My love, you must have a figure,' replied Lady Kirkbank, conclusively.
'It is not what you are, but what you ought to be that has to be
considered.


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