Wharton, Edith — The Age of Innocence [56]

As Madame Nilsson’s “M’ama!” thrilled out above the silent house (the boxes always stopped talking during the Daisy Song) a warm pink mounted to the girl’s cheek, mantled her brow to the roots of her fair braids, and suffused the young slope of her breast to the line where it met a modest tulle tucker fastened with a single gardenia. — Wharton, Edith, The Age of Innocence, 56

Note

The blush is tracked as precisely as a tide-line, stopping exactly at the tulle tucker — a physiological event disciplined by a garment. The body and the code are held in one frame.