Mr Gorell Barnes agrees to Mr Foxsmith's long petitioned request to dedicate a week to the pursuit of science.
However Mr Foxsmith uses the time for planning the event to get increasingly intimate with Lady Devonport. Regency anatomists are brought vividly to life with the arrival of Gunther Von Hagens and his anatomical exhibits. The mesmerist Tom Fortes Mayer also comes to the house to entertain the guests. Mr Carrington agrees to be mesmerised, hoping that he may compose a romantic overture as successful as Mozart's product of mesmerism, the opera Cosi Fan Tutti.
Before the end of the evening Miss Hopkins is in Mr Carrington's arms. Mr Everett is devastated, but takes solace in the fact that he can finally put Miss Hopkins out of his mind. But for how long?
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