At this suggestion, her reaction is instant and extreme—a twisting of the features so severe it's if he's shown her something rotten or suggested she put her hand into a bag full of live snakes. Her "Ugh!" is, in a word, emphatic.
"You mean the celebrations you didn't miss. It has been a thoroughly miserable year of parties of all kind, Mister Ellis. First I was abed for the Duke's grandson's birthday. Miss Ellie told me as many of the details as she could remember, but it isn't the same as being there in person and I have been longing, no dying, to observe the interior of that house. And I'm quite certain that all the music and dancing was lovely, and I've heard the Duke keeps a fine library. Do you know, de Foncé and Madame Baudin are some sort of cousins and yet they dislike each other so much that there hasn't even been any invitation to for tea or to anything like it which might ordinarily— Not that I have any great fondness for Madame Baudin, of course. Which I say so freely because she would point it out herself, I'm quite sure. But it's the principle of the thing."
Which as everyone knows, Wysteria takes highly seriously (for as long as the principle is convenient to her, anyway).
"And then there were all the undead for Satinalia proper, though I'd hardly prepared a good costume and now make for a dreadful dancing partner. And then Brother Gideon blew up the make up party to follow, and there has been nothing since. I think everyone is convinced that Riftwatch parties are cursed affairs, and at this rate we'll never have another one again. And now we'll spend Summersday getting nearly assassinated in Antiva! It's all highly unjust!"
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"You mean the celebrations you didn't miss. It has been a thoroughly miserable year of parties of all kind, Mister Ellis. First I was abed for the Duke's grandson's birthday. Miss Ellie told me as many of the details as she could remember, but it isn't the same as being there in person and I have been longing, no dying, to observe the interior of that house. And I'm quite certain that all the music and dancing was lovely, and I've heard the Duke keeps a fine library. Do you know, de Foncé and Madame Baudin are some sort of cousins and yet they dislike each other so much that there hasn't even been any invitation to for tea or to anything like it which might ordinarily— Not that I have any great fondness for Madame Baudin, of course. Which I say so freely because she would point it out herself, I'm quite sure. But it's the principle of the thing."
Which as everyone knows, Wysteria takes highly seriously (for as long as the principle is convenient to her, anyway).
"And then there were all the undead for Satinalia proper, though I'd hardly prepared a good costume and now make for a dreadful dancing partner. And then Brother Gideon blew up the make up party to follow, and there has been nothing since. I think everyone is convinced that Riftwatch parties are cursed affairs, and at this rate we'll never have another one again. And now we'll spend Summersday getting nearly assassinated in Antiva! It's all highly unjust!"