36By Thursday morning, the day of, Molly was exhausted. She and Eugenia had spent the day before cooking everything they could in advance, which necessitated a massive clean-up in the kitchen and left the refrigerator stuffed to the gills. She had made several emergency trips into the village for supplies and ingredients, and had to borrow Nico’s car at one point to drive into Périgueux for a few things she couldn’t get in Castillac. Because as anyone will tell you, you cannot have a 70s disco party without a glitter-ball to light up the dance floor.
But nevertheless, so far everything was going fairly smoothly. Frances reported that she had gotten perfect outfits for them, including Lawrence, and Constance had shown up on time and gone about her tasks in her usual cheerful and inefficien
