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Friday, March 20, 2015
7:00 p.m.
As the hosts of the manor, Richard, Hugh, and Martha stayed at the events and received the guests. It was the one part of hosting events at Lakeside Manor that he disliked. But Martha insisted; being received by real English lords gave a touch of magic to the events, especially to parties held by foreigners.
So, dressed in his best lordly finery, with all his medals pinned to his chest, after having received two hundred and fifty people he didn’t know, he stood under a tree, with Giulianna in his line of vision, feeling like a child who had been sent to bed without dessert.
He had avoided meeting her, which wasn’t difficult with all the work he had to do, but he was expecting to see her in one of her ridiculously sweet uniforms of flying pigs or uni
