The rose had a good night that day. Costumers came in for their ale's, and left when they where to drunk to walk outside themselves. Darling had been singing songs all night long, and tried hard to make Mensdorff join him. But he kept failing every single time. Instead Mensdorff sat there waiting patently until his friend was drunk and they could leave. Darling at least did two rounds for the bar before he was to drunk to remember he wanted Mensdorff to be drunk as well, Mensdorff himself knew the problems his friend had if it came to liquor and just waited it out, he himself only had the one ale he got served that evening and had drunk it all, silently enjoying its taste.
When the clocks struck two and Darling finally stopped his singing and almost fell asleep, Mensdorff walked over towards the bar to pay their bill with a generous tip. With it he left a little note for Jenny to read;
Jenny
My my sincere apologies for my behavior, and that of Mister Darling. I do hope to see you soon.
Mister Fredrick Mensdorff.
He was gone with Darling before Jenny could react to the note he had given.
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The next day--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The sun slowly getting up, the clouds where gone and it seemed that this would be the warmest day of the year for now. The flower girls where up and about selling the best cuttings they could find by the florist to the men that tried hard to get to work on time. It was still early, around 8 in the morning when the city was full with people running around, carriages with the horses trotting over the slippery stones of the streets of London. Beggars had found their streets corners again had were hopeful that today they would be getting some coins.
Mensdorff enjoyed this time of the day, he was standing by his window in his study drinking his coffee and watching the people running around trying to get to work. He remembered when he was younger and still had to get to his office down town, he always wanted to be an architect, he could remember that he was only six years old already drawing buildings and houses, and educating himself about the structures and the history of the many buildings in the City of London. His break trough was when he designed an important part of the new House of parliament, that was still being build. Since then he got to work from his home office, where he felt save and best off all. He could be alone. He glanced at his coffee at his first sip and turned around "Williams! he called, directly his butler came walking towards the entrance of the office of his master Yes master Mensdorff the man said politely, keeping out of the office as Mensdorff liked it "It could be an possibility that a young lady will be visiting today. She might look like a beggar but I can assure you that I do wish her to enter the house. Just make sure she does not drag anything into the house we want to keep out. Williams lifted his thick grey eyebrows when he heard his master talk and nodded "of course sir, a young lady. Might I ask what this visit would be about sir?" Mensdorff nodded and took an other sip of his coffee "I want to train this raw filthy girl into an lady, just to see if such a thing is possible. I tend to have her stay her for the time being. Make sure that the guest room is ready, don't use the good linen yet. Make sure of that" Williams nodded again and walked off, thinking his master finally got insane.
Spoiler: Mensdorff's study
Spoiler: Mensdorff's townhouse
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