--this event is by special invitation sent over regular mail. If you have received an invitation or if you have plotted over private message with me, you can attend. Write up will be sent February 28th, 2022--
First Act
The butler guides you into a hallway of gilded walls and a grand staircase that seems to elongate further back. But before reaching the landing of the stairs you are guided to the left towards a set of white double doors that open to a dining room. Instead of its usual one table set, you find two parallel of each other in front of the fireplace. The Boscawen family, Viscount Hugh Boscawen, Viscountess Diana Boscawen, Caroline and Sarah welcome you as you enter the room with smiles. You are guided to one of the tables:
Table 1: Headed by the Viscount Hugh Boscawen at one end and his daughter Sarah at the other.
Table 2: Headed by the Viscountess Diana Boscawen at one end and Caroline at the other.
Everyone settles at a table ((of your preference, next to anyone you prefer)) and the meal begins.
Menu:
-First Course: Spring Soup-
-Second course: Roasted beef, potatoes and steamed vegetables-
Third course: Salad, and Charcuterie boards of cheese, meat slides, fruits and some cookies.
The Viscountess will announce that the greater dessert will be served later in the evening at an entertainment room before the meal is finished.
Second Act:
After the dinner the family members encourage you to join them in one of several after dinner activities they will do while Diana sets some desserts and punch for any late appetite.
Viscount Hugh Boscawen will state he is retiring for a moment to have cigar and brandy at his studio if anyone wishes to join him.
Viscountess Diana Boscawen also invites anyone to join her. She enters what can be described as a nice ball room that has been set up with a few comfortable seats, and a large table is being arranged with a cake, her famous rum cakes, a punch bowl that was made tropical style with fruit juice and rum and some pastries, along with silver ware, dessert plates and glasses. Anyone can serve themselves whatever they wish and take a seat, make conversation with the Lady as they wish. There is a pianoforte on the corner and there are two violin players that were invited to play – at the moment you enter they are resting but can take any request.
Sarah enters a drawing room near the front entrance of the home. It is a comfortable room of cream color, some comfortable seats, a fireplace, and some nice windows overlooking the front garden. A pianoforte awaits besides the windows. After making some conversation Sarah is persuaded to play the pianoforte and entertain but she is amicable to yield the instrument to whoever wishes. There is an extra chair and music stand for any other musician with any other instrument. Two love birds were already in the room within a cage that is kept by the fireplace for their warmth. A beautiful cocker spaniel of brown color rest in a pillow at the end of a long couch.
Caroline will leave the dining room and invite any friend who wishes to join her in a walk along the hall of Thregothnan house. Walls of pretty wall paper, chandeliers and paintings upon up where she can point to her favorite pieces. Besides some of the European style pieces, there are notable wood statues from the Westlands, stone figures of their Boriken home and even wall hangings of beautiful beading attached to macramé style strings. Caroline will eventually enter a room that appears as a game / billiard room where she will encourage people to relax before her mother calls them into the ball room.
Third Act
The butler or a maid will announce to your room that the desserts are set up in the ballroom by the Viscountess and any of the family members who were with you will invite you to join them there for some final conversation until whenever people wish to retire. Sarah and the violin players will be opened to perform and entertain. There are enough seats for people to rest, take any last dessert or punch as they wish. The four family members will make sure to be spread wide enough to converse with all guests and continue any conversations that began during the intermediate time people waited right after dinner. At some point the Viscountess will be encouraging some of the young people to do a bit of dancing for fun since, they should all be in practice for when they all see themselves in London on the following days.
Whoever wished to express they rsvp and accepted an invitation to sleep over in Tregothnan House to avoid late night traveling can say so at the end as there was plenty of space and a few guest cottages.
Be assured the Blackmore's will attend. Details to follow soon.
Eleanor wears a dress much like this, but in azure blue, with white flowers and pearl trims and jewelry.
She arrives with her fiancee, Lady Tabitha de Beauchamp. Eleanor seems less frail than she did at Twelfth Night, though she is still thinner than she was, and keeps a warm wrap with her at all times. At dinner she eats modestly, seeming to particularly enjoy the soup and fruit, offering compliments to the chef on the former.
After dinner, she joins Caroline for the stroll among the artwork. She is especially intrigued by the beading, and asks many questions about it.
As the family welcomes the gathered guests for final refreshments and music, Eleanor is willing to dance the less vigorous dances, of course properly saving one for her fiancee, and otherwise engaging in conversation with any who wish. She seems eager for news and gossip, having been forcibly out of Society for some months.
She will have accepted the offer of a place to stay for the night, and will retire to whatever quarters are provided after offering sincere thanks to the hosts.
Lady Camilla Davenport, upon arriving for the festivities, will have gravitated towards the Viscountess and her daughter. Perhaps she is captivated by their relationship, as her own with her mother is in need of repair; but more likely, she seeks to form an alliance of friendship and loyalty with them.
Caroline looked at the beautiful tables dressed and ready for their guests. Her mother had such an exquisite taste in her choice of flowers, linens and decorations. With this dinner they would finally feel settled in Tregothnan House as the family in charge of the peerage. Her fingers ran the white satin of her gown with the pretty embroidery on the bottom. Her father on a seat by the fire place with a newspaper, her sister not far from him on a couch with a book to entertain herself and her mother overlooking the last details of the choices made by the servers, maids and the kitchen staff.
The Viscountess spoke to the housekeeper – “We are sure that all the kitchen staff and the musicians had a good meal before starting their duties, right? I do not want anyone worked to hunger here…this is not that type of household.”
~”Of course not M’Lady…”~
Caroline approached her father by the fireplace, “Any news of your Opinion piece Father?”
Viscount Falmouth looked up with a shake of his head “Not yet Caroline, I imagine in the next issue.”
“It was very brave of you to have submitted it, and I’m very proud of you Father…I had not said that yet.”
The Viscount took his daughter’s fingers and gave it a bit of a squeeze. Sarah offered a warm smile with a side glance before turning to her book.
On the other side of the room the housekeeper was looking puzzled at a serving table, making the Viscountess question: “Is there anything wrong?” “I could have sworn all the serving knives were in place before you all entered.”
The Viscountess and the Housekeeper’s attention were brought to the side entrance from the kitchen. Miss Tregidden came out chased by the cook Miss Sullivan. “It was her, Susan Tregidden…! I know she has the knife. I saw her with it.” The Housekeeper looked at the cook with a mixture of alarm and embarrassment. “Miss Sullivan there is no need for this…we can settle this in the kitchen at once. For now we will do with one from a different setting.”
And at the tail end of that speech from the Housekeeper, a footman enters to announce their first guest. The Viscount and Sarah rise to greet, the Viscountess starts approaching the entrance as well with an alarmed look to the Housekeeper – the Housekeeper starts shooing away the cook and the maid, and Caroline the closest to the door turns to greet their first guest as well.
The whole of the Boscawen family greeting the first guest with smiles and very awkwardly embarrassed expressions.