[And since she's probably been standing this entire time she's just going to get brave and kind of...take a chair for herself without being invited because what the hell, let's just be impulsive today, while we're crossing Victorian social boundaries with reckless abandon anyway.]
I think it's similar to the way I used to know of all sorts of families with fine titles and a great deal of standing — of course I wasn't friends with all those people, but they were...the old families and such, this marquis and that lord and the duke's son's son carrying on the name and so on. One expects that all to be there, and then it...simply isn't. It's strange in the way that I find it strange to think of the queen being...someone other than Queen Victoria, I suppose. Or of there being no queen at all.
One knows where one fits into the workings of it all, at "home". It's much more difficult to do that here.
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[And since she's probably been standing this entire time she's just going to get brave and kind of...take a chair for herself without being invited because what the hell, let's just be impulsive today, while we're crossing Victorian social boundaries with reckless abandon anyway.]
I think it's similar to the way I used to know of all sorts of families with fine titles and a great deal of standing — of course I wasn't friends with all those people, but they were...the old families and such, this marquis and that lord and the duke's son's son carrying on the name and so on. One expects that all to be there, and then it...simply isn't. It's strange in the way that I find it strange to think of the queen being...someone other than Queen Victoria, I suppose. Or of there being no queen at all.
One knows where one fits into the workings of it all, at "home". It's much more difficult to do that here.