“He frowned, for while there was nothing unusual about the dress Ahnna wore, he did not find that it suited her. She wouldn’t be able to move in her usual way in a gown like that. It was too limiting. “I’d heard that you’d caved to propriety but didn’t believe it. Yet it seems hell hath indeed frozen over, for that, my lady, is a dress.” “And your dismay at seeing it is understandable,” Ahnna replied, “because should we be accosted, you’ll have to defend yourself.”