Cecilia the Duchess of Alcott, Tristan’s mother sat in the tea room reading the women’s gossip column at Almanac having just returned from accompanying her friend Countess Dupont to her carriage. She laughed at something she read on the paper. Picking up her cup from the saucer to sip her tea.
“Alas! Madame Rosebud has finally met her Waterloo” she chuckled going back to the page.
She had received a letter earlier today inundating her about her friend Lady Florence's arrival from Bath in two weeks. She was very excited as she had missed her since she went to Bath with her husband to rest from the constant responsibilities upon them as the Duke and Duchess of Wellington.
She had quickly responded expressing her exhilaration at their arrival and promised to inform her husband the Duke a
