[Victor will match that unseen eyeroll!]

I understand. My mother was always going on about how 'old money' and the 'upper classes' did things. It wore on your nerves after a while.

The Everglots? The elder lord and lady rather scared me, I admit. But Victoria proved to be a very nice young lady -- shy and quiet, like me. (How she ended up that way with such parents. . .then again, you could ask the same of me, honestly. My mother is the loudest person one could ever know.)