For one thing, Freemonte would have assumed that a trip to the bath-house and barbers was something one did after a mission for the Guild, not before. For another thing, he would never have thought he would find himself in a well-to-do Aberddu tailor's being fitted for a frock-coat and breeches that he would be allowed to keep on expenses. He was even more astonished when Iona told him that he would not need to visit the armoury or herbalist, because dances at the Albion embassy 'weren't like that'. Freemonte refrained from pointing out that he knew exactly what dances at the Albion embassy were like and he begged to differ. Among other things, Queen's Guard Captains spend quite a lot of time standing about these places in their dress uniform. It was this military training that had also ta
