* "Madam, I need her measurements. The ball is in eleven days. I can do it. Trust me — and don't say anything to Hazel. »*
He had never held a needle to make a dress. His nails were bitten until they bled. Still, something in her eyes made doubt impossible.
She said yes.
Eleven nights sewing until dawn
For eleven nights in a row, the light in his room shone after 3 a.m. His mother called to report that his fingers were bleeding from pricking the needle, that he had failed two school tests, that no argument could convince him to stop.
