Selena slept until midnight, then got up and took another comfortable hot bath, and then she seemed to be alive again. Maria thought it was because her daughter was tired these two days and didn't ask any more questions. They rummaged through the sweet-scented osmanthus flowers that were drying outside, and the mother and daughter sat by the bed talking and making sachets. Because the sachets with the scent of flowers that Selena made with flowers were particularly popular, Selena asked her father to buy some fine cotton and gauze with nice colors from the cloth shop.

Sachets are not as labor-intensive as weaving lace, and they are easy to...