Oh dear, rationing really wouldn't help the morning after unless the gentleman were a fan of porridge.
I do like Harriet wanting to look nice for Peter, and hurray, it's the symbolic red dress, in moth-eaten state. I am a little worried (despite knowing the eventual outcome) that Harriet is gearing herself up for a Serious Conversation that has the prospect of going horribly wrong.
(Would Harriet dress for dinner when on her own? But perhaps she's heading out.)
I think Harriet is off to dinner with friends. She has a busy social life you know. She's not sitting at home waiting for gentlemen to call and invite her to Ferrara's. Though now I'm worried that dinner parties must have been a bit like having gentlemen callers eat all your jam. Unless you served parsnip stew followed by fake banana parsnip pudding to your guests, and where's the fun in that?
Harriet: "Oh, did you ring last night, Peter? I was out with friends." Peter: *seethes with jealously*
I have definitely read books that involved guests coming to stay and being expected to bring their ration books so that their coupons could be used. Dinner parties feel like a tricky medium, though, unless you are serving Woolton Pie. Perhaps the host spent some time in India and does a mean root vegetable curry?
(I have a wartime recipe book that contains mock banana. Having tasted home-grown small parsnips post-frost, I suppose it was probably all right for the under 7 brigade.)
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I do like Harriet wanting to look nice for Peter, and hurray, it's the symbolic red dress, in moth-eaten state. I am a little worried (despite knowing the eventual outcome) that Harriet is gearing herself up for a Serious Conversation that has the prospect of going horribly wrong.
(Would Harriet dress for dinner when on her own? But perhaps she's heading out.)
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Peter: *seethes with jealously*
I have definitely read books that involved guests coming to stay and being expected to bring their ration books so that their coupons could be used. Dinner parties feel like a tricky medium, though, unless you are serving Woolton Pie. Perhaps the host spent some time in India and does a mean root vegetable curry?
(I have a wartime recipe book that contains mock banana. Having tasted home-grown small parsnips post-frost, I suppose it was probably all right for the under 7 brigade.)
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