Chapter Nine
Food Glorious Food
We are fashionably late into the dining hall but I only finished croquing my monsieur at half-two so I’m not sure I would have wanted the soup starter anyway. Everyone is dressed to the authentic nines, even footman Françoise and his crack team of servants – the difference is they wear powdered wigs. Everyone else is in their own hair, which means huge rock god thatches, the gentlemen paying every bit as much attention to theirs as the ladies. It’s great fun, Cas done up like the Sun King with flowing lace neckwear and cuffs, gold braided frock-coat and stockings beneath. Then there’s the big hair, the chrome rings on fingers and in ears, and all set off with a pair of brown cowboy boots. All the guys dress in similar. It looks like they are on set of thei
