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James takes his cue and starts tightening the laces. How ladies manage to wear the things, he will never know. Miranda offered to show him, when he last expressed his confoundment, but she hadn't yet managed to orchestrate a clothes swap. Given everything else about her, she'll probably have her way within the fortnight.
He gives the stays one final pull before going to tie his work in place. Thomas usually leaves a bow, always symmetrical and somehow distinctively his, a dead giveaway that he never leaves this particular chore to the servants. James typically tries to copy his work. Something about leaving things as he found them feels correct, or at least appropriate.
But, for all that James is hesitant to confront the situation directly, he knows that there are no secrets here. And so he loops the laces gracefully in his hand and ties a bowline knot, just as he has done a thousand times before. The finished product is efficient, almost effortless, and so distinctively his that it might as well be a signature.
Or a confession.
Or, James and Thomas flirt by tying Miranda's stays.