A Confident Woman In A New Dress

And in the middle of all these strangers, she felt a certain shyness. It seemed every direction she turned, another pair of eyes was just looking away, and it made her feel as if her new dress was perhaps a mistake. The flower print felt conspicuous in a tangle of gray overcoats. Her bare legs shivered, one at a time. She was late, so she put her eyes on her feet and strode through the crowd. But a man in the crowd saw her and tapped her on the shoulder. She stopped, looked up, and fell into his gray eyes.