After disappearing to see the hermit Zebedee Helm for a whole day on an undisclosed errand, Miss Francesca has had to cut the number and length of her visits as she is fast losing her tenuous grasp on gentility.
Back at the house, Mr Carrington has been doing his homework, and after asking the other ladies he fulfils one of Miss Hopkins' dreams. She returns to her room to find her bed strewn with rose petals. Torn between Mr Everett and Mr Carrington, is the broken-hearted Miss Hopkins about to make a terrible mistake? Lady Devonport, her chaperone, is struggling to take the impossible step of leaving her "passionate friend" Mr Foxsmith.
As the house party comes to an end and each guest prepares to leave, a final un-chaperoned ball held in 'Masque' and throws the rule book out the window. There is not so much corridor creeping as a thunderous stampede.
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