Discreet breathing exercises are slightly more difficult when wearing a corset. Adelaide will have to keep this in mind if she should ever find herself enduring the situation in the future. But here she stands, head tipped back, eyes focused on the middle distance as she attempted to breathe through this knot of unhelpful and frustrating anxiety. She starts at Sam's voice turning to face him and it is not the smoothest transition, the weariness and tension slipping under a civil mask she's worked hard to master in the past month, but it clicks into place neatly all the same.

"Sam. You look quite handsome."