Weekend Excursion* —You get the “two to get ready” activities, your choice of two (of the nine) long assignments, your choice of one (of the four) events and as many of the punishments you would like.

http://cdpunishment.com/institute/images/2010/10/sissybilly_100820-001e1.jpg)](http://cdpunishment.com/institute/images/2010/10/sissybilly_100820-001s1.jpg) Her slightly younger close friend, Lady Susan Macready, is resplendently wearing a billowy gown of sky-blue silk. Her sapphires glimmer with rich fire. This is Lady Susan’s lesser set of sapphires, her better set, equally as nice as the hostess’s emeralds, are upstairs in her guest room, waiting to be royally displayed at the upcoming ball tomorrow evening at the castle.

The TSDP Army Uniform

The copy of Country Life sitting on the table that is the lynchpin of this chapter was made by me to scale using the cover of a real 1923 edition of Country Life.

If Lettice were at her family home in Wiltshire, as an unmarried lady she would not be permitted to have breakfast in bed, that luxury reserved for married women like her mother only. However, in London, and under her own roof, no such stricture applies, so Edith sets about preparing her mistress’ breakfast tray. Sighing with satisfaction as she takes in a breath of cool morning air through the open window, the young maid stands at the deal pine kitchen table and places a pretty floral edged plate, and egg cup onto the dark wooden tray where they join a sliver salt shaker and pepper pot. She listens to the chirp of birds as she turns around and goes to the kitchen’s cutlery drawer and withdraws two spoons and a knife which she adds to the tray. Morning is the only time she really hears the birds, as within an hour, the streets around Cavendish Mews will be busy with the splutter of motor cars and the chug of buses and their noise will drown out the pretty songs of the birds who make their homes between the chimney pots and in the gardens of the surrounding Mayfair houses.

After the dressing

Emilee was busy clearing off the desert dishes from the large oak table, listening in to the conversations going on around her. As she walks out, she passes the side, servants staircase that is a faster way to reach the upstairs bedrooms. But Cecilia, like her Auntie, would not be caught dead on a staircase used by servants.