- "How lovely - green velvet and silver, I call that a dream, so soft and delicious, too." She rubbed a fold of the skirt against her cheek. "Mine"s silver lamé, it smells like a bird cage when it gets hot but I do love it. Aren"t you thankful evening skirts are long again?"The dresses, but oh the boredom of the Season, even for Polly Hampton, with her outstanding looks and excellent social connections - the ultimate "It Girl" of fashionable society. Groomed from a young age for marriage by her mother, the fearsome Landy Montdore, Polly causes a scandal when she declares her love for her uncle "Boy Douglas", the Lecherous Lecturer, and runs off to Italy ...