[SPEAKER_06]: Content warnings for 5 gyms presents marriage and marriage include rumor, scandal, romance, courting, gaslighting, coercion, substance use, grief, social pressures surrounding marriage and traditional gender roles and strong use of profanity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Listen in, as five friends take turns, weaving stories, their tabletop game of their choice.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is 5 GM's Inner Trunch Code.
[SPEAKER_06]: We pan into a large parlor room.
[SPEAKER_06]: And at least what does your house look like?
[SPEAKER_01]: I move around a lot, so it is a bit surprisingly scarce.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like, you know, some stuff around, nice base, some kind of painting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's more of like an eclectic sort of thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, I think that here we have Annelise, Esther, and Ophelia, are you there or are you arriving?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think I'd probably walk on to the scene.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're probably being led by one of Natalie's disturbance into the parlor room where she's sitting with us.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm lounging.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're definitely lounging.
[SPEAKER_06]: What are you wearing?
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like it's still a long flowy dress that very extravagant.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one of my more modest ones.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so you're just lounging on couch Esther's probably sitting opposite of you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just kind of hanging out.
[SPEAKER_06]: You two are probably talking about last night.
[SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm, oh for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Esther is definitely like leaned in a bit discussing the activities that went down at the ball.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think she is very much like,
[SPEAKER_02]: trying to inquire about what Annelis heard about the other guests or kind of interacted with the other guests like trying to get information out of her a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't think she really knows anything important.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, what do you think of the current prospects for this season?
[SPEAKER_03]: I saw that you were quite chatty with everyone in the ballroom.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, you know, I just...
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd just like to get around, talk to people, see what's going down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, nothing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't really gotten anything juicy, this latest one.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I did hear that our friend Ophelia decided to get a little dance with Sir Miles.
[SPEAKER_03]: I noticed that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It seemed as though Lord Miles was quite, oh, what is the word I am looking for here, possessive over the ladies' attention?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I noticed that too.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you think...
[SPEAKER_03]: There is any...
[SPEAKER_03]: Coat shit between the two of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I doubt it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But...
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna keep an eye on things.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why do you still aim to keep miles to yourself?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, I like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, a little snack.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a little cute.
[SPEAKER_01]: Always nice to have a little soldier boy around, you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you're certainly free to gobble him up to your whims as long as he does not get in the way of the other affairs for this season.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't worry about the little details like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know you do not, but the other members of the ton might.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think as you guys are having this conversation you see in at least one of your servants brings in Ophelia Um, I think you're just kind of standing at like the doorway to the part of the room like kind of like awkwardly standing there like I need to be let in here Um, as one of your servants goes up to you know, she's um, Lady Annelis Ophelia is here Oh, bring her in, bring her in
[SPEAKER_08]: I think she walks in, she's definitely wearing her work.
[SPEAKER_08]: Attires, it's like a really basic dark maroon skirt, like a nice white blouse.
[SPEAKER_08]: Definitely has like, for lack of a better phrase, a cheaper bottle of wine, like in her hand.
[SPEAKER_08]: She walks in, she's like, oh, I, so sorry.
[SPEAKER_08]: I didn't realize you already had a company.
[SPEAKER_08]: I should have probably sent word beforehand.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I always have time for my girls.
[SPEAKER_08]: Um, I'll turn to Esther and just, hello?
[SPEAKER_08]: I didn't realize you'd be here, otherwise I would have brought a gift for you as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I am merely a house guest as well, it's not necessary.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, it's lovely to make your acquaintance again.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it was so nice to see you yesterday.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know we didn't get much time to chat, which is partially why I'm seeing my friend on a lease here because I didn't get a chance to see her, but it was so great to meet you and see you looked great yesterday.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, well, thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I appreciate that.
[SPEAKER_03]: You yourself looked quite remarkable and it seemed as though much of your time was eaten away by bachelor's on the dance floor, wasn't it?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, which is an odd thing truly I was surprised myself, but it was a great night I think it was very relaxed and fun and I hope you had a good time as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh Absolutely I did I'm curious though, of course I do not wish to impede on your space or comfort you have merely just arrived What do you think of the Lord Miles?
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, he was actually really kind.
[SPEAKER_08]: He was a little rough around the edges, but I suppose we all are when meeting new people, but dancing with him and just talking to him was kind of nice, I hope to foster that friendship a little bit more, but I did lose track of him as a night went on, which is a little unfortunate.
[SPEAKER_08]: We did have another dance plan.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is friendship all you're looking for, huh?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, just friendship.
[SPEAKER_01]: Something simple.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you intend to perhaps set the Lord up with one of the young ladies that you're helping Shap around this season?
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean never say never.
[SPEAKER_08]: I suppose my girls truly all I want for them is to find someone that they can love and find a friend in as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Esther kind of gets this rice smile that grows on her face and she glances over
[SPEAKER_03]: I wonder then if the young lord would prefer a more mature taste to the social activities or if they would like to spend time getting to know the young ladies.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, that's not to hear my guess.
[SPEAKER_03]: But that is all I had to ask, I am glad that you had a lovely time yesterday.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I hope that I will get to see you again at other social gatherings this season.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I hope for that as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: And don't be a stranger.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm always glad to see you.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know, I totally missed you last night, and I meant to say hello, but then one thing after the other, and how to keep an eye on my girls and you know.
[SPEAKER_08]: But I did bring you this.
[SPEAKER_08]: Change the bottle of wine.
[SPEAKER_08]: Don't drink it all in one place now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, we'll see about that.
[SPEAKER_06]: As this is all going on, we move to a very densely filled smell-wise room.
[SPEAKER_06]: The air is full of smoke and probably hard liquor, and chatter.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just a lot of men bumping elbows, asking about how nights went, how a states are going, how families are doing.
[SPEAKER_06]: If there's any prospects or what not, and we see, some miles, probably with a crowd of men around him, friends, quote, unquote, acquaintances, anyone who listen pretty much.
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you up to?
[SPEAKER_07]: Miles is kind of like reclined in the chair with a cigar, just like in his hand.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know if he like smokes as much as he like, to like, looks like he smokes?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Same thing you do with drink, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Drink and hand, just kind of like not barely nursing it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Boys, so they had the night was quite even full.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was.
[SPEAKER_07]: One of the more lively events I've ever been to, I think.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would have to agree, things got crazy.
[SPEAKER_06]: You got a lot of action.
[SPEAKER_06]: These women.
[SPEAKER_06]: Fawning over you.
[SPEAKER_06]: They're just hauling over you.
[SPEAKER_06]: You have to tell me your secret.
[SPEAKER_07]: I wish I had one, and then I could stop doing it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's natural, it's Alice.
[SPEAKER_07]: Suppose they just are all just so needy.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you see another guy, I was like, and you got a dance.
[SPEAKER_07]: A few, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm more curious about Ambrose.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, they seem to just like, big-noring everyone, and then what dance was like a governance.
[SPEAKER_06]: that was a little odd strange yes so he was floating around all night and the one dance we did see him was was interesting for sure strange what does he know her one would assume if if they had a dance or maybe he maybe she caught his eye I don't know be a bad choice you see another guy towards the back
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, and that's why I would know So you don't know anything No, all I know she was Doesn't even really have a name Couldn't even remember if I tried but she was watching over some some girls her daughters.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think I don't know unmarried Strange strange How peculiar right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I guess if no one knows of Evanson's after the poor lady then, guess it doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm sure.
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is it well thought after man?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: But as I use, this will be interesting to see how this goes.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not too worried about it, I mean marriage isn't really on my list of things to do.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, you should let the ladies know that then.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know what the leaves know anything.
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe that's the secret.
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe that is the secret.
[SPEAKER_06]: They secretly don't know that you're not interested.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just focused on work.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's no how it is.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, Miles now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm trying to go for more.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, are you?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, isn't everybody.
[SPEAKER_06]: I suppose you're right.
[SPEAKER_06]: How is your nighthood going?
[SPEAKER_06]: I see you to fake smoke here.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's all right.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've quite enjoyed it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a bit slower than the academy was.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a lot less to do when there's not active war.
[SPEAKER_06]: Fair enough.
[SPEAKER_06]: A lot more balls.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, a lot more socializing.
[SPEAKER_06]: Don't quite enjoy that much.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's the secret.
[SPEAKER_07]: Rather, beyond the battlefield, if I'm not quite honest.
[SPEAKER_06]: It is part of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Supposed it is what it is, moving up in the world.
[SPEAKER_06]: Choose, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose it, choose
[SPEAKER_06]: I kind of like can't I that I'm like don't you know I can't decide it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you open it up.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's from Annelys She's asking for your presence at her estate.
[SPEAKER_06]: I see.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well boys.
[SPEAKER_07]: I believe it's time for me to go Some lovely ladies ladies right all right some miles.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's a little bow.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, see you head off No doctor.
[SPEAKER_06]: What are you been up to?
[SPEAKER_06]: What are you doing right now, actually?
[SPEAKER_06]: Where are you?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, probably locked away in whatever space I'm staying and currently.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just like, shades drawn.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have like different like, a look, there's things I'm like working on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just like, okay, and if I put a little bit of that and that's all wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just doing my job.
[SPEAKER_00]: The sole thing I'm obsessed with, which is being a doctor and medicine.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just working on medicine, trying to avoid the, anything that's, especially on the, on the heels of what Annelis did, in making me, essentially more intriguing, bachelor's degree.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, sure.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I, I think that's, since then, like all morning you've had servants coming in, being like,
[SPEAKER_06]: And you've been like turning them away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm just, I'm just feeling that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I go out every like three, as like a proof of like, like turning everyone away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's just kind of, again, feeling that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I will say, with everyone that comes in, I'm trying to gather as much information on everyone's possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just kind of, and I think here in there,
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, well, I did, I did here, it just is interesting, then a mother would be so doding on her child as to like, even insist on a dance with him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I don't believe it's record of it, but in the doctor's space, some others have
[SPEAKER_00]: The illegitimate child of the lovely Analyze.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really?
[SPEAKER_06]: Is that where they were like that the other night?
[SPEAKER_06]: I sort of explain why they're so close.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yeah, parent child security maybe.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what it's like.
[SPEAKER_00]: The youngest Ambrose dancing with the governess.
[SPEAKER_00]: It seemed like there was a spark there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I surely will see more of that, I hope.
[SPEAKER_00]: So fascinating.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very...
[SPEAKER_00]: I just do a lot of that, but just subtly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I've been dropping them in conversations randomly.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, hey, if I can figure out any of the rumors that she's starting, that'd be great.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, yeah, yeah, I would say we're troubles fast always especially right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's it's such a lightly moment that you guys are in Is it even a rumor?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's just kind of like crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think especially like as you get later or in the day Would I be able to to parse out where it came from like can I like sniff it out?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I'm a bullshitter.
[SPEAKER_00]: I I bullshit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Give me token.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here you go.
[SPEAKER_06]: Give me token all that you didn't cool
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you are like, you, you do that.
[SPEAKER_06]: And so you're able to sniff it out fairly easily to know how and where it's traveled through.
[SPEAKER_06]: Again, it's a lively moment right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's not hard to deduce that people talk.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's gentlemen's clubs around.
[SPEAKER_06]: A large congregation of men getting weird information and then all of a sudden it all coming out the same time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Little odd.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think, especially from this sort of like bitter tone, then it seems to come with, like not explicit since you didn't hear from Sir Miles.
[SPEAKER_06]: But you know, there's that weird little like, what's her name?
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't even catch her name when they danced.
[SPEAKER_06]: When they were like, dance for a while.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on man got it cool cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, yeah, so you'll be able to yeah, that's what my time is to say so What exactly are you working on right now?
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am trying to find a A cure all for for hangovers because everyone's like got fucked up So well, I'm then also like the back burner of like always working on like solve it But probably probably like tuberculosis.
[SPEAKER_00]: I try to figure out the kid is tuberculosis
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm looking at what with the vaccine.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've revolutionized the fact that you should wash your hands before doing doctor work and no one believes me.
[SPEAKER_06]: No one believes you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Everyone's like, why would you ever do that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you calling me gross?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you dirty?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, you have to listen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you calling me uncondely?
[SPEAKER_00]: Our world is covered in dangerous things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we are putting those things onto our patients when we work on them without washing our hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I'm not covered in blood, how will people know how to adopt your food?
[SPEAKER_05]: That's a really dollar question.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then also, I would like to write some letters?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to, I want to exo exo gossip go this and I would write some letters.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to publish some pamphlets.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_06]: So when you whistle down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when you guys go to the next scene, I'm going to step over there and write.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, you guys are going to jump over right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we'll hop away from the vi-count as he's hold away.
[SPEAKER_06]: We'll hop back to Anneliese's estate, and at least again, one of your servants runs up, and it's like, oh, lady, surmiles is here.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's delightful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bring him in, and bring him the letters I had that came in recently.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_06]: And they'll go and fetch surmiles.
[SPEAKER_06]: You've been awkwardly standing in the doorway.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know anyone else is there, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, you just know the analyst requested your presence.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think he's coming, he's coming, he's like, brushing his hair back already, like, starting to unfund his collar, like, don't think calling me so...
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, he didn't see Esther, and don't feel you on her way out.
[SPEAKER_07]: Lady, uh, Von Raimish, Schwarze.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ladies, good heavens.
[SPEAKER_07]: How surprising it is to see you here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: What was the occasion?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I just, I just want to give you some good news about your prospects, um, prospects.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was talking to one of my cousins.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's very high up in the pressure military.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, um, I told, I told them all about you and your exploits.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, um, so I'm going to have the, one of my members of the staff and me, the letters.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: To show, like, and they think that they, that you have a place in the pressure military.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And also, I happen to get you a Prussian uniform.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you'd look much better in Prussian blue than the reds they wear here.
[SPEAKER_07]: You wanted to have this conversation with company.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think every good news needs to be celebrated and with good friends.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think there's a lot of awkward, like, quick-laces to feel like it's just like what the fuck it's doing here.
[SPEAKER_07]: And he's not very good at hiding it.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, not at all.
[SPEAKER_07]: You are so incredibly awkward with your body language.
[SPEAKER_07]: Uh... Wow.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_08]: The Prussian military, that's quite exciting.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm sorry, I didn't mean it.
[SPEAKER_08]: You stop, but Annelis is just so excited about the news.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys are in the room.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, I didn't realize.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, that's far.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's, would be a journey.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, it's just a quick boat, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Not too bad.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a conversation to be had, surely.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's very exciting, congratulations.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you all right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, um, I'm just gonna get some water Just like I kind of like shuffle up to the corner and just pour myself a glass and I Use my monologue token all yeah miles Yeah What do you try to find out?
[SPEAKER_02]: I so they have obviously been put in like
[SPEAKER_02]: the worst situation right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really want to know, like, as their eyes are kind of like darting back and forth from Ophelia and like, processing this information about the pressure military, just like, what all is like going through their brain right now, like, what's kind of knocking around up there, especially when they're looking at Ophelia.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, I think there's a lot of guilt.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it might not be for the military stuff it's just like general guilt.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then... Gosh, it's hard to think about what exactly is going.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just a lot, like a lot of just like, oh shit, oh fuck, like what's the other end of you?
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, oh my goodness, oh shit, oh shit.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I walked in, I walked in looking like, like, what am I doing?
[SPEAKER_07]: What are we doing here?
[SPEAKER_07]: What's going on?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, just like, frazzled and guilty.
[SPEAKER_07]: guilty about a lot of things yeah a guilt it's like layers of guilt where it's like of course like oh yeah we're talking about me moving away like oh I didn't really want to tell you about that in front of these people there's still a conversation to be had about that like it's not set in stone
[SPEAKER_07]: and then like maybe a little bit of anger at analysts because I know she's doing this shit on purpose because I know this bitch and then another layer of like deeper guilt under that for some reason something maybe he said I don't know who knows
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, can I use one of my tokens so I know he earlier, uh, Miles said the comment that it's going slow and you'd rather be on the battlefield.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that, like, through through the, through the grapevine, I heard some of that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, again, information travels and you give me a token.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's probably something I've told you explicitly.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and it probably might be a driving factor for you being like, hey, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: And why it's working and why it's working so well.
[SPEAKER_01]: So as as as as Miles is walking out, I'm gonna be like, oh, I'm gonna tell my girls like, oh No, the Prashians, we have a lot of plans for the French and we're gonna need the best week and that we can get Oh, lot of enough for him to hear obviously.
[SPEAKER_06]: So you guys have that awkward thing going on.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah Surmiles went to the other room for a second.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm sure he's fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: Totally 100% perfectly fine I think he'd like just take a few breaths Manca's way back in the room
[SPEAKER_07]: So are you ladies just, um, here for celebration, sorry, but we're just Gavin, you know how ladies be.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right, right, ladies, stop to buy to say hello and check in our analysts, make sure she's okay after the night we had.
[SPEAKER_07]: He, he was quite a night, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: I woke up with crazy.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't remember drinking.
[SPEAKER_07]: You just had the punch, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I just, I just had like some water in the punch and that's, that's about it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe a sandwich.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm, maybe the Sandwich is bad.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe, but I've never had a headache from a Sandwich.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, I'm not a doctor.
[SPEAKER_07]: But that's true.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, then that night was nice.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was a good night.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was.
[SPEAKER_07]: You look quite popular, why you not?
[SPEAKER_07]: Right, yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'd rather not talk about that honestly, this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm curious if any of the ladies caught your eye.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Esther's eyes dart too, affiliate.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just like, oh my eyes also dart too, affiliate.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then, and then to Anne Elise.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's just saying, you're like, yeah, oh my god, how was your night?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like the beginning of her head.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, just a lot of lovely women, yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: The season is in bloom.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, Esther, like, raises her eyebrow, like, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, she's like the vagus.
[SPEAKER_07]: I spoke with quite a few, so it's kind of how to put my finger on any one of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I heard you had a dance with Ophelia.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's a pretty good dancer.
[SPEAKER_01]: How was that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I don't know about that.
[SPEAKER_07]: It was a good time.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm quite a clumsy dancer.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like the length of the dance as well, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, what?
[SPEAKER_03]: A quite the length of the dance as well?
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe it's just the length of the song.
[SPEAKER_07]: If it's a long song then I suppose it'll be a long dance.
[SPEAKER_03]: So much so that Lord Ambrose couldn't really get a word in with her feeling.
[SPEAKER_03]: How could he?
[SPEAKER_03]: I think he got a few words in, actually at the end of the night.
[SPEAKER_07]: I remember seeing that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right, we also that.
[SPEAKER_07]: the end of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, the end is usually the most memorable.
[SPEAKER_07]: Isn't it?
[SPEAKER_07]: I want to use them on a log joke.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: On Miles.
[SPEAKER_07]: Why does it want to know?
[SPEAKER_07]: He's so, he's so transparent.
[SPEAKER_08]: You don't need one.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm like, overall vibe is surely, but I'm like, is this too jealous right now?
[SPEAKER_08]: Wait, that's what's going on.
[SPEAKER_07]: 100% are we dead as?
[SPEAKER_07]: So great.
[SPEAKER_08]: What the?
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, so what exactly?
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, break it down for me.
[SPEAKER_06]: And in Miles's head, as you're trying to be super cool as you're speaking,
[SPEAKER_06]: What is going on in your head?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not jealousy.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just, it didn't make sense why he would single you out in the middle of the night.
[SPEAKER_07]: When he has all these other ladies, like chasing after him, there was no reason.
[SPEAKER_07]: And really, I'm just like, maybe you guys know each other.
[SPEAKER_08]: Is that exactly what I pick up?
[SPEAKER_08]: Like, like, almost like, dis-tame?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like, he himself doesn't realize that's what it is.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just like, like, ugh, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: He has a lot of thoughts, but it's not connecting the dots.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, so many thoughts, no connections is also thinking about the sound that swords make when they clink together.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, he's not.
[SPEAKER_07]: Always know that.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's your honor, he's is.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a lot of that.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's all grounds you back.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, just like the battlefield.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a center.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like, what is comfortable with?
[SPEAKER_07]: This is like...
[SPEAKER_07]: I think...
[SPEAKER_08]: You kind of just like, isn't it, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, you're your last moment.
[SPEAKER_08]: She's, I feel like it's kind of just like, you know, it was, oh, that he approached me and didn't expect that at all.
[SPEAKER_08]: I truly did not think I'd ever be on someone's radar, someone that high of status, but it was nice to make as a Quaintance and the dance was a dance, nothing more.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I'm sorry, it took over our last dance of the night.
[SPEAKER_08]: Maybe the next ball we could.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, you're out to fight that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't, I forgot about that actually.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just thinking about how Esther's sitting there, like watching all of this happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's got the most like shit eating grid imaginable as I would expect nothing less.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kim, if possible.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think having stirred this pot, I think Esther might take her leave.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and if possible, I'd like to use a token to call on the
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, dude!
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, 100%!
[SPEAKER_06]: How do you take your leave, do you just go?
[SPEAKER_02]: Esther's seeing this mess that she has made in this room right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: She stands up and she curts these to Annelise.
[SPEAKER_03]: As always, my friend, I appreciate you hosting me and allowing me to gab about our evening activities.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then she curses to miles in Ophelia, who I imagine are still kind of like in the middle of it, trying to figure out this conversation.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she says, I bid you both a very good day.
[SPEAKER_03]: And do you as well?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, well.
[SPEAKER_06]: and she'll take care of you.
[SPEAKER_06]: So you take your leave, you go back to your state and you call upon the doctor.
[SPEAKER_06]: And we'll pan away from this little bit of a social mess that's going on for a bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: We'll follow Esther as she gets back to her state.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you going to the doctor's house?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think she would go to the doctor's house, yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: So you're like, you know what?
[SPEAKER_06]: There's been all this talk about stuff.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's go find out what the by-counts up to.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I know Esther knows from the conversations that she and the doctor were having the night before.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is up to no good.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is certainly up to something, and it is no good.
[SPEAKER_06]: As someone who also gets up to no good, you can smell the no goodery.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah, um, yeah, so you make your way to the VyCount's house.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, VyCount another one of your servants comes up and say, um, VyCount, uh, and you have another color, um, uh, an Esther?
[SPEAKER_00]: Make, make her wait.
[SPEAKER_04]: How, how long?
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, send someone to tell me when she's going to leave.
[SPEAKER_04]: do you want me to just watch her from the window?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh no, give her a seat in some tea and then when she seems like she's about to disembark, let me know and I'll make my parents.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_06]: So Esther, the servant comes back to you and is like, um, all right, we'll just make your sit down and I'll come bring you some tea and biscuits and um, I'll let you know when the
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, of course, thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sure that he's very busy with his work.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are there also like other failed collars like coming in and out during the show?
[SPEAKER_06]: As you like definitely walked up, you saw definitely at least two women like leaving the house.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then the boy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you definitely see two women leaving the house.
[SPEAKER_06]: You saw another that came up and then got quickly like swatted away by one of the servants.
[SPEAKER_06]: And so like it's interesting that you're being sat down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think she definitely notices that.
[SPEAKER_02]: She is also going to take stock though of like, if possible, the mothers and other callers like reactions to her just sitting there watching them.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think.
[SPEAKER_06]: Especially like, okay, so like the two like women in the remas as they were leaving and like you were going in you kind of saw that like Smirk on the mamas face like ha she's about to get turned away and then you see the one that just got like turned away in the her mamas Walk you sit down like in slow motion and that sort of like
[SPEAKER_06]: Wait a minute, she's being sat down.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just got shootaways so expeditiously.
[SPEAKER_06]: Why are you being sat down?
[SPEAKER_06]: And so there's just like small, like you can kind of see these like gears turning in heads and things like that.
[SPEAKER_06]: And like a bit of shock, especially going in their faces of like, what's this special about you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Esther's gonna kind of people watch for a little bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: and then time will pass.
[SPEAKER_02]: And time will pass.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's still drinking the tea.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's done with the tea it's cold now.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so cold.
[SPEAKER_02]: She ate what she wanted to have the biscuits.
[SPEAKER_02]: More time has passed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I truly think that she waits there like an obnoxious amount of time before she finally grabs a servant and she says,
[SPEAKER_03]: Does the White Counts always make ladies wait this long before turning them away?
[SPEAKER_03]: Did the other mamas have to wait this long for and not even hello?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, the White Counts always busy with his work.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I can go check and see if he's ready to see you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now, if that is what you would like, Lady Esther.
[SPEAKER_02]: She settles a little more deeply into the chair and she says
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, how about you tell him that I am very fed up and about ready to you make my leave?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I will let the Vy count no right away.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's scurries off.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like do you do do do?
[SPEAKER_06]: Vy count I believe she said that she's about fed up and ready to leave.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I think I think it's built so much in here I need you to clean it so fast.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's what did you do?
[SPEAKER_00]: So it will burn your skin.
[SPEAKER_00]: You need to cover your hands and just start cleaning everything
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I see you like more often.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mr.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do apologize for having you wait so long.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was I was on the cutting edge of well None of that matters.
[SPEAKER_00]: How are you?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna like lift you up by your hand Kind of and just like give you like a a small just the least the least in character thing He would do just like give you a little kiss on my hand and he's immediately placating the Like the expectations of the scenario Please do sit again.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna call on someone to get us more tea
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah 100%.
[SPEAKER_06]: As soon as like they see you like walk in, I get one of your sermons is like, I got to get tea.
[SPEAKER_06]: I got to get more tea.
[SPEAKER_06]: And so you get a fresh pot of tea and more of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, yes, I hope you weren't waiting too long.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, not at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: In fact, seeing your other potential suitors be turned away so abruptly while I waited was quite amusing.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I do hope my comfort here does not serve rumours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, surely it will, but that's beside the point.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rumors are more of lies told by those who can't conversate with tact, you know, such as I'm a viable bachelor because I'm a doctor that's needed.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's nonsense words, about it by nonsense people that lead us to having to turn away far too many a young woman in a day.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm, what would we even talk about?
[SPEAKER_00]: They're 19, 18.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, nothing to converse it with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I asked them about their favorite flower.
[SPEAKER_00]: They say whatever my favorite flower is.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm making a point for every three to come out and have a conversation with one, but I send all of them away.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's quite unpleasant.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's so I see, and at least it's meddling, has not served you well this day, has it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I would hardly call what Anlyce does, it's meddling, at best it's half hazardly sticking her foot in places where it might get chopped off although she does seem quite apt at doing so.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I was actually at her estate earlier today, and I happened to reunite with young miles, in fact, and the governor's.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the governor's end.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm ashamed to say so, but I've had some bits of gossip make it my way, and it does appear as though the young Miles was speaking with quite the venom in reference to the young governess that he appeared to, well I thought he seemed quite enamored over.
[SPEAKER_03]: As did I, are you sure that you heard correctly?
[SPEAKER_03]: Because when I saw him today, he burst into her lady and Elise's estate, buttons undone and fully flustered of a conversation with lady of Julia.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is, well, that is quite something I surely hope for.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even though he was not expecting Anna Elise to have further company.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, yes, I suppose they should have a word for something like that to ensure that nobody's around when misgivings might occur.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you say this, uh, you say youngster miles didn't appear full of venom or vitriol for the young governor nest in this moment?
[SPEAKER_03]: Not at all, in fact.
[SPEAKER_03]: He could barely keep eye contact with her.
[SPEAKER_03]: It seemed as though he was fully enamored.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe he was a bit ashamed for spreading dirt upon her name amongst other men of some caliber.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, how men get to talking at those silly get-togethers.
[SPEAKER_03]: It makes me curious how Lord Ambrose will react to hearing this event on about the young governess.
[SPEAKER_00]: Surely, there's more to Lord Ambrose than just believing what he may or may not hear.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe a more reputable source will.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay him one way or the other.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am wary, though, and truly, this is why I have called upon you, not in slights of your company, but rather, I would like to request your aid.
[SPEAKER_00]: And here I thought we were having a nice cup of tea and sharing, um, a cute moment, what aid might you need?
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, I, I, giddy like like like like like like like like, like in your face, coming apart at the seams of like the level of like smirk like, yeah, it's like, what do you want me to do?
[SPEAKER_03]: As you may have heard through this,
[SPEAKER_03]: wretched, tangled group of mine that runs through the town.
[SPEAKER_03]: My house, House Lockhart, has begun to experience some troubles, both of my younger sisters have been married off, which is all well and good, and I was quite prepared to live my life as a very fulfilled, very relaxed spinster with the company of my mother.
[SPEAKER_03]: Unfortunately, my dear cousin, my dear cousin Mortimer, has recently taken hold as head of household,
[SPEAKER_03]: and is squandering all of our comforts away, because of this, I am now as we discussed the party in search of a companion, a husband, if you would, or whatever finds their way to me, yes,
[SPEAKER_03]: I, perhaps selfishly, and perhaps, and viciously, have sent my sights on the Lord Ambrose.
[SPEAKER_03]: And not just out of greed, mind, I did find our conversation quite compelling.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I do worry if miles wears this double-sided mask that Lord Ambrose may rush to defend and protect the governess which would bring them closer together instead of orchestrating a companionship between him and myself.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you see what I'm saying?
[SPEAKER_00]: do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will surely I can help in some capacity there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I suppose I ask of you more.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is it exactly you'd have me do?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or would you just like me to perform the way any regular doctor might perform?
[SPEAKER_03]: look if I count.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am not a woman without sight.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know that much like my dear friend and at least.
[SPEAKER_03]: You yourself are quite the, and I say this with as much affection as I can muster, a medler.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so, I simply ask that you help me uncover miles through intentions with the governor's.
[SPEAKER_03]: Perhaps if the rest of the town were to see that miles in some way has affections for her, Ambrose will look other places to other ladies.
[SPEAKER_03]: and vice versa.
[SPEAKER_00]: I see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that is all quite exciting.
[SPEAKER_00]: The anchor chief and all.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would say I have no qualms getting to know the youngster miles more.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it would be quite fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Regardless of aid for you or not.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do find your proposition here, interesting, the main thing I take um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um
[SPEAKER_00]: and at least are the two medlers amongst the pot when you yourself is perhaps are more apt at this than maybe either the two of us and you're just a bit more subtle with your words here.
[SPEAKER_03]: been the outside of looking in on the romances of my younger sisters and it is true I am quite adept at spinning a tail or three regarding romantic affairs or setting pieces up in just the perfect row to aid them.
[SPEAKER_03]: However, when it comes to the endeavors of one's own heart, it can be a
[SPEAKER_03]: without making oneself the villain in these affairs.
[SPEAKER_03]: I do not wish to see my household ruin any more than it has, and well let's be honest here.
[SPEAKER_03]: If a word were to come out that I am spinning tails to set Lord Miles up or set Becavenessa up, well it would make me look quite desperate, wouldn't it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I have no doubt that it would make you look quite desperate.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I'll take you up on this offer to a little bit more.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, but anyways, I will gladly get a bit closer to Sir Miles and find his true intentions or rather reveal intentions that everyone will deem true to the people.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do have a single, and I don't want you to misunderstand this in terms of some form of a Morris connection, but more I
[SPEAKER_00]: If you find yourself in a space in which you cannot marry another, I have plenty of cushy offerings here, and do need to marry by the end of the season.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, please do not mistake this for anything more than it would solve both of our problems, but I would love to see you arm and arm with someone you, well, are enamored with.
[SPEAKER_02]: Esther was like in the middle of drinking her tea, and then she just kind of goes,
[SPEAKER_03]: And Vy count, why are you in such a rush for a suit if you continue to turn every third lady away?
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I, at the very least, you can hold a conversation.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if we're going to share a home and space, that is the very minimum, you appear to be at least moderately well-read.
[SPEAKER_00]: I put this off as long as I could in the lieu of the passing of my late love, but my house will have it no longer, and I am to marry by the end of this season, and I don't quite enjoy the festivities hence my meddling.
[SPEAKER_00]: But again, two problems can be solved very easily at the end of the season.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're not, again, arm it arm with the, well, gorgeous young embrose.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone appears to love him.
[SPEAKER_02]: What a time to not have my monologue took, and any more.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know what, actually, that's a great point.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go ahead and use my monologue, how can you see what Esther's taking?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, God dammit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, thanks.
[SPEAKER_00]: You remind me.
[SPEAKER_06]: But what exactly you're looking for, in Esther's head?
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to see how receptive she is and like what the vibe is about like this offer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it like this guy's offering it but I want it again Is it all of this guy or is it like I'm maybe all considered it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's like are you reading this as meddling and being a shitster or are you reading this is like what the fuck?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I want to know how you're reading the situation and handling it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think in the in the weirdest way and not even as like an insult to the fight count I think Esther is
[SPEAKER_02]: reading a lot of this scenario as him just joking like I don't think that she
[SPEAKER_02]: She does not think that he is being serious about this.
[SPEAKER_02]: She thinks that he's just kind of like taking the piss at the situation.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't think that it's like, at this point, not gossip that her family is struggling, so she knows that word is out there.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I think as like, the Vicount is looking at Esther, there are certainly gears turning in her head.
[SPEAKER_02]: And even though
[SPEAKER_02]: She is very much kind of trying to be forward thinking about like what would be the best possible option for her.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think she has this perspective due to what she was looking for for her sisters.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's also very realistic about the fact that this is probably the last season that she would be able to really look for a match of any kind, platonic love match
[SPEAKER_02]: I think there's some gears turning, but for the most part she thinks that you're just gesting with her about this, like she thinks that this is a bit of a joke.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'll leave it at that, like that's okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I suddenly do appreciate the offer by count.
[SPEAKER_03]: So perhaps I should ask this as well if this scheme is successful and we are able to at least publicly err out whatever it is going on between Lord Miles and the governess, what would you like in exchange?
[SPEAKER_03]: I do not have much, I can offer as a well-read woman or otherwise,
[SPEAKER_03]: But if I am to be paid off with Embrose, what do you have to gain from all this from helping me?
[SPEAKER_03]: Would you seem readily agreeable to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think in exchange, perhaps we can just kind of leave it as an open letter.
[SPEAKER_00]: I may ask for a small favor, maybe a placed word somewhere in some ear at some point.
[SPEAKER_00]: That seems fair.
[SPEAKER_03]: That seems fair to me as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, well, I do not wish to take your way from your very busy working activities any longer if I count so, uh, I will get out of your hair now and- Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Have a good day.
[SPEAKER_03]: I do expect your assistance at whatever social gathering we end up in together next.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm quite certain it'll be the talk of the town.
[SPEAKER_06]: don't sound so eica and she'll curtsy and leave so you guys have your conversations plans are made in place and we'll go back to Ophelia.
[SPEAKER_06]: I assume after Esther left you hung with at least for a little longer to use a result token to leave at the same time as miles.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, yeah, 100%, um, so that probably means you linger here awkwardly as long as I'm talking with this.
[SPEAKER_06]: And, um, and at least, you know, you just have people in your house all the time.
[SPEAKER_06]: So it's not really weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do want to use a monologue token because I'm going to wait until I'll feel you and Miles are kind of talking.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to get how I'll feel if he else about Miles, like what they're intentions really are.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I think after using my monologue token and trying to kind of figure out what's going on in there She's genuinely like oh shit did I make him upset like I didn't mean to like make him feel bad or anything else Like I am genuinely trying to make a friend and you're friend in this town and he's new I'm trying to make him feel welcome and now I feel back.
[SPEAKER_08]: I just something wrong.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's the vibe And like I need to mend that so we can be friends.
[SPEAKER_08]: I want to be friends What are you two talking about?
[SPEAKER_07]: um nothing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nothing and everything.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just like all the weather's been um quite pleasant.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's been really great how how was your morning?
[SPEAKER_08]: How was everything to the post party?
[SPEAKER_08]: Mine is the slight hangover.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, yeah, just pop by the gentleman's club.
[SPEAKER_08]: I didn't think that would be a place you like to spend time.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's good to have camaraderie.
[SPEAKER_07]: Not especially when I'm not in
[SPEAKER_07]: active duty.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's kind of hot for me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Making friends is great.
[SPEAKER_07]: Friendships.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's easy.
[SPEAKER_07]: Really like friendships.
[SPEAKER_07]: When lives on the line, it's easier to have those connections.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're bonding.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Anything can go alright, scary.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're so very brave for you.
[SPEAKER_08]: For willing to do that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hotly.
[SPEAKER_08]: You think hardly.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's very easy to risk your life.
[SPEAKER_08]: Maybe, but that doesn't make any less scary and to be brave enough to put your foot forward, I think says a lot about you.
[SPEAKER_08]: And if you do go off to the Prussian military, you're scarcely one step closer to death.
[UNKNOWN]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_08]: You say it's fine, but I think most men would tremble at the thought.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, I'm not the most men.
[SPEAKER_06]: How much longer does my old stay until my old leaves?
[SPEAKER_07]: I think he was awkwardly waiting for a failure to leave so that I could have a serious conversation with the Duchess.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, this is kind of like...
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm like, let's make sandwiches!
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I love it!
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just like awkwardly looking over, like...
[SPEAKER_07]: I suppose... just getting quite late in the day, I have some work to attend to.
[SPEAKER_07]: Duchess, I will send for you later, for conversation.
[SPEAKER_08]: I feel yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's just like an awkward, like, wait, like, two seconds where you like, so I'm making your way to the double end.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think I'm gonna head out as well, Annalise.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, it's always good to see you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And remember, I always have time for my girls, and I say it very pointedly.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think I, I courtesy to you because it's what's supposed to be happening and I just give you a hug.
[SPEAKER_08]: I miss you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I give a big hug too.
[SPEAKER_06]: And you guys walk out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are you like?
[SPEAKER_08]: Following my home, it's like I'm like, somehow's weight, like kind of chasing after you a smidge, trying to, oh, can't you feel like make your way?
[SPEAKER_08]: Hello?
[SPEAKER_08]: Why?
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: I did just want to say one thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to use a token to have one of my servants just have to be nearby, like gardening.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my god, 100% bro.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I think we have it here, we're like made it past, like your front and gate.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we're like, they're like still in the wall.
[SPEAKER_05]: You guys servants looking at the window all the time.
[SPEAKER_05]: How else is it at least knowing everything?
[SPEAKER_08]: I didn't want to say one more thing before you left, and I thought it best not to say in front of company in case it becomes awkward or uncomfortable, and I have a chance to leave if it becomes awkward or uncomfortable.
[SPEAKER_07]: Right, um, totally reassuring.
[SPEAKER_07]: I am not nervous at all.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, I-
[SPEAKER_08]: Did you just want to apologize if I offended you last night in any way or made you upset?
[SPEAKER_08]: No!
[SPEAKER_08]: I know you, you and Ambrose kind of came on the scene together and it was really awkward and you had already offered me a dance but I already promised you one and I felt rude to ignore the host at his own party and it was very intense 30 seconds.
[SPEAKER_07]: I understand Ambrose is a lovely fellow.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm very charming, charming.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I really talked to him the once.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh!
[SPEAKER_07]: I flow.
[SPEAKER_07]: I figured, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just...
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: He did just throw back into town.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_07]: And that is the fact that I have... ...lets up my mind.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um...
[SPEAKER_08]: But I do hope we can remain acquainted
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I won't take up any more of your time, and no, which way are you walking?
[SPEAKER_08]: My house is that way just pointing.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll walk you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, it's really kind of late in the day.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's just like a quiet walk.
[SPEAKER_07]: Taking in the scenes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dude.
[SPEAKER_07]: I have so many tokens.
[SPEAKER_07]: I use a token.
[SPEAKER_07]: You drop something.
[SPEAKER_07]: I pick it up.
[SPEAKER_06]: You have to paint me a picture.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, we'll paint you, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're walking.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a little windy.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm taking off my gloves and my gloves back on.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like midday, but it's like, it's kind of overcats.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a little gloomy, but it's kind of nice, like, like, like this.
[SPEAKER_07]: And love falls.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, no!
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a calming hit.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know, it's okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now it goes up the floor.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think that's not the floor.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then I actually like bend down.
[SPEAKER_07]: Get it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Give it to you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is me, I have a night.
[SPEAKER_07]: Goodbye.
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[SPEAKER_07]: and stand there for a little while like, oh shit.
[SPEAKER_07]: And turn heel and start marching off to home, my guess.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you go back to your house.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, Phelia, as you walk in, you have a servant come up to you and it's like, oh, um, they go Phelia, this game for you as you are gone and they held up a letter.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, okay, take the letter.
[SPEAKER_08]: Open the letter.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, Celia, I've written this letter many times as every way seems to be more unstately than prior.
[SPEAKER_06]: I do not believe there is a way to not make this sound awkward.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, I'll begin with this.
[SPEAKER_06]: I hope you've been well.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've been thinking of you a lot lately.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thinking of what I'd say if I saw you again, what I do.
[SPEAKER_06]: But mostly what I hope is that you've been well.
[SPEAKER_06]: You deserve that at least.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh shit.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think she reads it like in the front of the house like in the doorway, essentially.
[SPEAKER_08]: And she's shaking a little bit.
[SPEAKER_08]: She's kind of like doing that.
[SPEAKER_08]: They're like, you're gonna get someone you fall down the wall.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is the first time you've heard in years.
[SPEAKER_08]: In years.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it's a little suspicious because why now?
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh god.
[SPEAKER_06]: So yeah, you have that tutorial with for the night.
[SPEAKER_06]: And at least before the night is over, you do see your servants brought you in that little stack of letters that you showed off to the group and you do see that one is from your uncle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh okay, I'll open it up.
[SPEAKER_06]: And at least you open your letter and in your uncle's penmanship it says, and at least I hope things are voting well for your sake.
[SPEAKER_06]: I haven't heard from you.
[SPEAKER_06]: I assume you've been busy with your work.
[SPEAKER_06]: Need I remind you the importance of your future patrols?
[SPEAKER_06]: Expanding our influence to other countries' vital, especially after our unification.
[SPEAKER_06]: We must show that we do not back down with our unified front, and of course to be reckoned with.
[SPEAKER_06]: Please send back at your earliest convenience.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sign your own goal.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just gonna write back and be like, don't worry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just kind of general like, oh, I'm working on it like things are too good.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Two thumbs up.
[SPEAKER_05]: Two thumbs up in a letter.
[SPEAKER_05]: Two thumbs up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm going to have a painting done at me giving two thumbs up.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and you should bet over your own.
[SPEAKER_05]: You have all of you from the others.
[SPEAKER_05]: I do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're just in case, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a button like two thumbs down, one thumbs up, one thumbs down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, both in the middle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I have a bunch of them ready to go.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so you send that letter back.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, and we go ahead a few days later.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, the ton has been buzzing, not only because of the eventful ball, but because there has been pamphlets distributed throughout the ton of accounts from that night.
[SPEAKER_06]: There are three separate ones, full of lots of things, the first one says, not only are there two young men, a sur and a vi-count, deemed the most viable suitors, but they also appear to share in another connection with a lady of no status.
[SPEAKER_06]: However, this all may be a strategic movement upon the young governess's house.
[SPEAKER_06]: From reports found herein by yours truly, the young governess may in fact be this secret markest of a house in raptured in momentum, with the context of this document laid bare it would re contextualize the dances had before us.
[SPEAKER_06]: The next one reads,
[SPEAKER_06]: A further note, there appeared to be a widow lady and a sir who exemplify a peculiar closeness.
[SPEAKER_06]: This closeness would be less if a cradle watching scenario and rather a connection of parental overbearing that has bloomed from the lady's extra marital and a more is connection with a foreign duke and the last one raids.
[SPEAKER_06]: Last of note, the two bonded by familial tie appeared to be Inca Hoots while a certain youngster wore mongers and urns for battle in quotes to cover up the lack of his social prowess.
[SPEAKER_06]: There also appears to be a youngster spreading misinformation about a no-name governess that had made her debut in a night full of dances with the most viable suitors.
[SPEAKER_06]: This youngster spreads these rumors or non-enammer in hopes of
[SPEAKER_06]: And with that, we're gonna close out the scene.
[SPEAKER_06]: Miles used to have a monologue token, so therefore you are forced to use it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh-oh, who do you want to use it?
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, I kind of want to use it on Annel Leafs.
[SPEAKER_07]: I want her thoughts on the pamphlets.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, she's extremely angry, and she's gonna put every resource in defining out who it is.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, that's the vibe you get.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, I think that's where we're gonna end this episode.
[SPEAKER_06]: Love that for you all.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you so much for joining us for five young presents, marriage and marriage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bye!