Juliana laughed lightly at this, but she didn't want to just make her blackmailer look a little silly — she wanted to give her such an embarrassing and life-ruining social moment she would regret having ever dared to make assumptions about Juliana in the first place, and certainly to have threatened her via letter. Jules had warned her that she would be sorry if she pursued this, and she wanted to follow through on it.

"Would you do it, then?" she asked. "If I managed to get enough information from her to actually make a dress?"