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[hadley_bright]

Outside her room, whenever she next steps out, Miss Cecilia Rushton will find a bundle of red tulips, tied carefully with a ribbon. There is no message.

(Hadley-Bright hopes he is not being too forward. But the effect would be quite spoiled were he to ask Miss Rushton that.)

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[charming_cecy]

Cecy will smile upon seeing them, and place them in a vase in her room. She can guess who they are from and that makes her wonder if she should have told Mr. Hadley-Bright that she was engaged.

[hadley_bright]

It may have been well to do so. For Hadley-Bright will come to call not long after, to see how his gift was received.

[charming_cecy]

When Cecy hears a knock at her door she rushes over to her mirror to check her hair, then opens the door with a smile. "Good day, sir."

Typist: Music video with Cecy!

[hadley_bright]

Hadley-Bright quite promptly bows. 'Good day, Miss Rushton.'

[charming_cecy]

"And how are you today, Mr. Hadley-Bright?"

[hadley_bright]

'Very well, Miss Rushton. And yourself?'

[charming_cecy]

"Exceedingly well, sir. But the strangest thing happened today."

[hadley_bright]

'Indeed, Miss Rushton? What was it?'

[charming_cecy]

"I do believe this house may be overrun by spontaneous flowers."

[hadley_bright]

Hadley-Bright smiles, slightly. 'Whatever do you mean, Miss Rushton?'

[charming_cecy]

"Just a little earlier today, sir, I discovered some outside my door. I don't know where they could have come from and I was forced to take them in."

[hadley_bright]

'Why, perhaps they were a gift, Miss Rushton.'

[charming_cecy]

"I feel rather sorry for the poor things if they were. To be abandoned so cruelly."

[hadley_bright]

'O, I am sure they give it little thought.'

[charming_cecy]

"I shall simply have to take the burden of caring for them upon myself."

[hadley_bright]

'Surely no great burden! Why, I should be glad to assist you, Miss Rushton.'