At the Masked Ball

From zero_pixel_count's  prompt "One is of course completely unrecognisable at a masked ball..." I wrote this 1,847 word piece.  I hope that you all enjoy this, and I will get back to the word mines where I am 5,000 words into the friend to lovers prompt....

Elsbeth was confident that no-one would recognise her.  She was at the Grantham’s masked ball and instead of taking the opportunity to have a little too much of her flesh on public display, she had chosen to cover almost her entire person.  The dress was form fitting, made of dusky purple satin under decorative net of the same colour, but it was high collared and fell to her ankles.  The sleeves were elbow length, ending just above the matching elbow length gloves.  Her mask covered everything on her face above the bottom of her ears and her hair was pinned up under a glorious monstrosity of a hat that involved tulle, feathers, and some decorative elements that she couldn’t even name.  For this evening she was Madam Incognita.

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