Just a soft twang? Caroline was sort of hurt to think that maybe her accent was fading. She resolved to work on it harder.
The waitress came and Caroline ordered a steak sandwich, cost be damned, she had a reputation to uphold. "It's home," she said. "I'm from Houston originally, Corpus Christi most recently. I worked on a cruise ship. I was a pit boss."
There was a large chance that this woman wouldn't have any idea what a pit boss on a cruise ship actually did. She didn't seem like the type of woman who spent a lot of time in casinos and gaming rooms. And in thinking that, Caroline regained a lot of her contempt for the well dressed, put together woman.
Surreptitiously she looked down at her worn Converse sneakers, and then at Naomi's shoes. Idly, she wondered where the woman had bought them, but she caught the errant thought and pushed it firmly from her mind, scowling a little.