[ That sounds like a person confident in their skills instead of their looks and that simply isn't Hilda so she really can't relate.

With the distance between them she wonders if he can make out the barely restrained curve of her lips and flushed pink of her cheeks at the compliment. A part of her hopes not but that's wishful thinking and something she'll never actually voice aloud to confirm. ]

Aw, shucks. Hopefully the actor wearing it feels the same.

[ There's a brief pause as she continues to admire him on stage in a corset that, while it doesn't fit, still suits him the longer he's in it. When he inevitably comes down from the stage and they make their way back to her office she'll offer him a smile that rides that fine line of teasing and sincere. ] T

he offer is always on the table if you want something like that made. You look good in it.