McKay bowed stiffly. "Lady Weir, I am afraid I must decline. I have- that is to say-"
"Lord McKay and I have a prior arrangement," Sheppard interrupted, with a smile that managed to be at once very charming and very vague. "I am afraid we're already very late to Brooks-"
"Boodle's" McKay said firmly.
"- White's," the other man continued, ignoring him. "If you'll excuse us." Then he steered McKay by the elbow away from a slightly stunned countess, through the anteroom and out of the house. It was a matter of a few minutes work for them to retrieve McKay's carriage - Sheppard having arrived with his mother in the family barouche - and for the driver to head off in the direction of the club."
"You realise," McKay said after a few minutes, an expression that was something between genuine amusement and true curiosity on his face, "That I have now offended the Countess and her daughter most grievously."
"I am sure," said Sheppard, settling back against the comfortable padding of the seat, "That for the sake of your father's purse, they can be persuaded to forgive you."
See why this is a bad idea and should not be encouraged? For it is SILLY IN THE EXTREME.
Re: Most horrible pastiche in the history of pastiches!
"Lord McKay and I have a prior arrangement," Sheppard interrupted, with a smile that managed to be at once very charming and very vague. "I am afraid we're already very late to Brooks-"
"Boodle's" McKay said firmly.
"- White's," the other man continued, ignoring him. "If you'll excuse us." Then he steered McKay by the elbow away from a slightly stunned countess, through the anteroom and out of the house. It was a matter of a few minutes work for them to retrieve McKay's carriage - Sheppard having arrived with his mother in the family barouche - and for the driver to head off in the direction of the club."
"You realise," McKay said after a few minutes, an expression that was something between genuine amusement and true curiosity on his face, "That I have now offended the Countess and her daughter most grievously."
"I am sure," said Sheppard, settling back against the comfortable padding of the seat, "That for the sake of your father's purse, they can be persuaded to forgive you."
See why this is a bad idea and should not be encouraged? For it is SILLY IN THE EXTREME.