Chapter 95

There had been a buzz about town for the last couple of days. Spending more time at the manor now than ever before, she got to see preparations start to formulate over their engagement party first hand. Imagining this must be how every event at the house started off and a little in awe of how much went on behind the scenes to the grand events.

A huge workforce of staff was called in to clean the large halls and downstairs rooms adjoining thoroughly; every detail was meticulously seen too, even the corners. Large chandeliers were lowered, dusted and cleaned to sparkle for the approaching day. Curtains removed and professionally freshened up. Floors buffed and polished. A crew of ten or fifteen people, bustling around for hours on end attending to every small aspect of making the place sparkle.

Cases of glasses, crates of alcohol and endless boxes were carried in over a few days and disappeared under Alice’s watchful eye to some secret storage place. Boxes of linens and pl