>>5683433(consent to Lady Temperance's matchmaking)
>>5683674>Try to find out if she has any hidden embarrassing pastimes>Generally try to get close to her...oh and if he calls... tell him I am away. Don't show him in! Oh but also telephone him afterwards Hetty, let him know that I will be attending Lady Temperance's Water Banquet. Hint that I might, might (!) be there! Don't make it sound like I am too eager or anything!! Oh and you must remember to see the seamstress for my new dress and gloves. The gloves, don't forget, you should write it down in a journal or something! You are always forgetting things Hetty! Oh and also you should find a gift for Lady Temperance. Something stylish. But also thoughtful. Something for her children perhaps? Maybe some of those exotic prints from the Orient! But that strange antiquarian Augustus Wheeble is so disagreeable! He always makes me shudder, fawning over his exotic collections and woodcuts from the Far East. Father seems fond of them though. And I suppose they are fashionable enough, that Lady Temperance has chosen her Water Banquet with this theme, the calligraphers on the river by the pavilion. Oh, I almost forgot, I am supposed to meet Father! He is always so busy at the foundry and Ironworks these days - if he has sent for me, it must be something quite momentous! And then Hetty you must also see to the laundry, and the scullery, and pay the...
