The Friday 56

Here's a fun thing I found while surfing:
http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/


Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.

Here's my contribution from The Secret Lives of Dresses by Erin McKean
"Grim-faced, beautifully dressed, adorned with several shades of diamonds, she shrugged off Dora's diffident offer of assistance and continued her march through the store."