Now that she had been introduced to society, her preparations for a visit 
to the Leased Territories were just as elaborate as for any New Atlantis lady. 
Outside of New Atlantis, she and her chevaline were surrounded everywhere by a 
shell of hovering security pods serving as a first line of personal defense. A 
modern lady's chevaline was designed with a sort of Y-shaped body that made it 
unnecessary to ride sidesaddle, so Nell was able to wear a fairly 
normal-looking sort of dress: a bodice that took advantage of her fashionably 
narrow waist, so carefully honed on the Academy's exercise machines that it 
might have been turned on a lathe from walnut. Beyond that, her skirts, 
sleeves, collar, and hat saw to it that none of the young ruffians of the 
Leased Territories would have the opportunity to invade her body space with 
their eyes, and lest her distinctive face prove too much of a temptation, she 
wore a veil too.