She wondered if he could see her just as well, the yellow seersucker dress with ruffles around the armholes and her deceased mother’s straw hat that she had chosen to wear.

She wondered if he could see her just as well, the yellow seersucker dress with ruffles around the armholes and her deceased mother's straw hat that she had chosen to wear.

There was so much blood on her red petticoat, blood on her black dress and her white veil, blood on the executioner's shoes, blood all over the floor.