Pamela Pounce by Egerton Castle

While Miss Pamela Pounce was serving her third year as apprentice to the great art of Hat Confectionery, under the egis of no less a personage than the world-famous Madame Eglantine of Paris -- once "the little French Milliner" of Bath -- her aunt and benefactress, who had placed her in these favourable circumstances, had begun to taste the proudest triumph of her life.

Miss Lydia Pounce was about to become own woman to a Court lady! My Lady Kilcroney -- to whom she had so faithfully and ruthlessly devoted herself -- from the days when, as the Widow Bellairs, she first scintillated in the world of fashion, to her present position of Viscountess -- was chosen by Her Majesty, Queen Charlotte, to fill the post of Lady-in-Waiting to her own Sacred Person.