10:30 p.m. Just home from dinner. Keys in the bowl on the front table.

You slip into the bedroom to change.

In the other room, you hear him making drinks. Ice, your favorite Japanese gin, splash of tonic, lime.

He knows you.

You emerge (wearing this) to find the doors to the balcony open wide, so you drop the needle on the turntable (a stack of Nina, Ella, Louis, Billie) and step into a warm breeze floating up from the bay.

Then its one more button undone. One nearly-bare shoulder

Darling, come outside.

You know him, too.

Vintage Smocked Nightgown (No. J8253). Pure, sultry cotton nightgown with alluring lace trim at neck and delicious smocking at front yoke. Button placket with self-fabric covered buttons. Sensational at any hour, but some more than others. Imported.