>>5696056>>5696102Your attention is reeled back from your eavesdropping of Millicent and Herman's conversation, by the needling tone of Lady Blanche, as she has hopelessly imprisoned your arm in her own...
- Ah, but you have evaded the question, through your eloquence! You see, I must know the answer, in order to assess... your standing, your eligibility, as it were. So I must ask again: why are you not married? Is it not unusual for one to remain uncommitted, to remain so long unattached in this day and age? Unless one partakes of... (Lady Blanche frowns, adopts a familiar, reprehensible tone of denunciation) one partakes of... dissipated pursuits...
>Well, the only way to get rid of Lady Blanche once and for all is probably to upend the dregs of your Banquet Chalice into her face; commence ungainly throwing-drink-in-the-face slapfight combat, hooray!>roll 1d6>write in some explanation why you are not married. This had better be convincing...>(attempt flattery to extricate yourself from this conversation) Lady Blanche, the sweltering cruelty of the Sun shall not wilt the delicacy of a lady's complexion! Let me fetch a parasol for you...>roll 1d6>try to free your arm, and push Lady Blanche aside in order to join Millicent and Herman's conversation:>roll 1d6>reply to Herman: the rampant misogyny of this place is unbearable! Did you know that Le Cenacle, the private members club, does not even admit entrance to women? Come to think of it, I do not believe Witenagemot House even permits any female political representatives either! That is probably why women are being murdered in the streets and nothing is being done about it...>Ask Herman: er... Her-man, Herman... why are the militant suffragists, er, you know, for women's votes and things, why are they led by a man, ie, er you? Her-man? Shouldn't a woman be in charge?>Gaze longingly into Millicent's disillusioned eyes and suggest what you think the Water Banquet is for...? (write-in)>Something else...? 