"Do you think so?" She's chuffed. "Yes I do, for styling myself is my delight. Here!"

She leans over him and pulls out the comb holding the front of her hair away from her face, sending with a shake of her head a cascade of curls onto him. Laughing, she shifts a long hank of hair so that it drapes between his ears.

"And you look just as beautiful with curls as you do without. It is only my lack of pearlescence that spoils the picture."