"Oh, heavens, let me think. I don't really pay that much attention."
To some degree, she sets the fashion, and to another degree, she is beyond it.
"There was a period last year when birds were quite in vogue. It started simply enough, with embroidered birds on handkerchiefs and the like, and then sort of just spiraled, until Lady Marcela arrived at a ball in a gown made all of feathers, and shed dreadfully as she danced, and everyone wound up slipping on feathers and sneezing all night.
"After that, I might have said that I thought the fashion for birds was very silly to one or two carefully selected courtiers, and, well, that was the end of the fashion for birds."
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To some degree, she sets the fashion, and to another degree, she is beyond it.
"There was a period last year when birds were quite in vogue. It started simply enough, with embroidered birds on handkerchiefs and the like, and then sort of just spiraled, until Lady Marcela arrived at a ball in a gown made all of feathers, and shed dreadfully as she danced, and everyone wound up slipping on feathers and sneezing all night.
"After that, I might have said that I thought the fashion for birds was very silly to one or two carefully selected courtiers, and, well, that was the end of the fashion for birds."