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Wine and Whist
Jan. 13th, 2016 04:47 pmThe Houston Area Regency Society held its first event of 2016 on Saturday night. Kaycee held a small dinner party at her house, and it was a real dinner party. Everything was lit by candlelight (which incidentally demonstrated that her house is not prone to drafts since they all burned evenly). There were few of us, but the company was good. Beside our hostess and myself, there was a couple who reenact several periods in the area that someone has been trying to introduce me to for the last few months and whom I was delighted to meet. I enjoyed the Grahams' company very much and look forward to seeing them at more events. There was another couple who had to leave before the party had really started due to illness (preexisting, not a result of the party). I didn't really talk to them much before they left. And best of all, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nuranarcame down to join us.
We gathered in the living room (or should we say drawing room to be in character with the pretense of the party?) before Kaycee ushered us into the dining room for dinner. There was a soup course and a main course and a salad and some very nice vegetables. (The carrots were reported to have burnt and were not served, but they couldn't have been badly burnt because I never smelt it. My sense of smell may not be keen, but badly burnt carrots would have been unpleasant.)
Then we retired to the drawing room again for a game of whist and an array of small edibles, though no one was really hungry enough to do much damage to the display. We didn't play a full rubber, which is my fault. I grow weary of cards easily and had had enough after one game. Mr. Graham didn't care to take my place so we abandoned the cards. Then we sat around and chatted for a fair bit. I didn't mark the time when the Grahams left, but Ginger and I stayed until after midnight. I'm not sure how late we would have stayed had I not known that I was unlikely to be permitted to sleep past 7:00 and that we still had about a 45-minute drive back to my house.
To the best of my knowledge, only one picture was taken the entire evening.
It was a lovely evening.
nuranarcame down to join us.We gathered in the living room (or should we say drawing room to be in character with the pretense of the party?) before Kaycee ushered us into the dining room for dinner. There was a soup course and a main course and a salad and some very nice vegetables. (The carrots were reported to have burnt and were not served, but they couldn't have been badly burnt because I never smelt it. My sense of smell may not be keen, but badly burnt carrots would have been unpleasant.)
Then we retired to the drawing room again for a game of whist and an array of small edibles, though no one was really hungry enough to do much damage to the display. We didn't play a full rubber, which is my fault. I grow weary of cards easily and had had enough after one game. Mr. Graham didn't care to take my place so we abandoned the cards. Then we sat around and chatted for a fair bit. I didn't mark the time when the Grahams left, but Ginger and I stayed until after midnight. I'm not sure how late we would have stayed had I not known that I was unlikely to be permitted to sleep past 7:00 and that we still had about a 45-minute drive back to my house.
To the best of my knowledge, only one picture was taken the entire evening.
It was a lovely evening.
