And THEN sat down to eat with them.It had never happened to me, and I almost couldn't figure out how the heck to act. It showed too, because Lynne sta...ed at me, frowning. She couldn't look at my lap, because I was sitting down by then, but I got the distinct impression she would have, if she could have.Jill seemed completely unconcerned and wolfed down her grilled cheese sandwich as if she had places to go and people to meet. It turned out she wanted to go for a ride after lunch. While we were. This poor fellow must have wondered what this lunatic was talking about, and I was just about collapsing in fits of laughter, listening to Lisa apologising to this man. We finally got onto the correct number and this very nice guy explained everything, especially that there would be no pressure at all on us to join in, or do anything except enjoy ourselves; and we were quite welcome to come and see what went on; and that everything was very discrete. When we arrived it was just like any other. We stopped at Sephora. "Do you mind ifwe go in? I need a few things." She asked. I tried to be disinterested,because I was secretly really excited. "Sure!" I said. She grabbed atote and in we walked.As she perused the aisles, I followed her, closely watching what she waslooking at, doing some research for myself. She does have a cute styleabout herself, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to soak in theknowledge, albeit on the down low.We walked down this one aisle where some lip. The main party had returned early from the hothouse, there are now about sixty or so people queuing in the main entrance, to access the great hall, library, and the armoury. Lady Elly speaks “we’ll detour around them,“ with that Elly opens a small side door “we’ll take a short cut, mind the steps” with that you follow her down the dimly lit narrow circular stone staircase, the ever present old man close behind, at the bottom lady Elly stopped suddenly to unlock a heavy oak door, you.