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thequitecontrary) wrote2017-06-15 03:27 pm
thequitecontrary) wrote2017-06-15 03:27 pm
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Reunion
After Mary's engagement to Richard Carlisle officially ended, she and her family thought it would be best for her to spend some time in New York with Cora's family. They didn't know if Richard would print the story about Mary's scandal with Pamuk. Now that the engagement was off, he had every right to. At least in New York the news, if it got there, wouldn't cause such a sensation. She would weather any storm while in America and then return to Britain after it blew over. Mary was planning on it being the duration of the summer.
The only person from Downton that went with her was Anna, being Mary's most trusted companion. The trip across the Atlantic was long, but they finally arrived and were taken with all of Mary's luggage to her uncle Harold Levinson's mansion on 5th Avenue. She knew that spending a few months with her uncle and grandmother, who also lived in the house, would be entirely different than living at Downton. They were not nearly as formal, something that drove the Dowager crazy, but Mary thought she might find refreshing for once. She just hoped that Anna would be alright with it.
One night soon after her arrival, there was a charity benefit for American war vets hosted by one of the wealthy families of Manhattan. It was a chance for vets to hobnob with the rich and for the rich to make sizeable donations to veteran organizations. There were several heavy hitters there, people with last names like Vanderbilt and Astor. Martha, being the schemer that she was, saw this as a perfect opportunity to introduce her newly single granddaughter to some wealthy American men.
Mary was holding court with about three of them, two of them much older than her and one closer to her age. She didn't find any of them to be particularly spectacular, beyond being wealthy. Having just ended an engagement due to lack of love, she wasn't so ready to jump into another one with someone she merely tolerated. But she smiled and engaged in polite conversation at least. That would make Martha happy.
The only person from Downton that went with her was Anna, being Mary's most trusted companion. The trip across the Atlantic was long, but they finally arrived and were taken with all of Mary's luggage to her uncle Harold Levinson's mansion on 5th Avenue. She knew that spending a few months with her uncle and grandmother, who also lived in the house, would be entirely different than living at Downton. They were not nearly as formal, something that drove the Dowager crazy, but Mary thought she might find refreshing for once. She just hoped that Anna would be alright with it.
One night soon after her arrival, there was a charity benefit for American war vets hosted by one of the wealthy families of Manhattan. It was a chance for vets to hobnob with the rich and for the rich to make sizeable donations to veteran organizations. There were several heavy hitters there, people with last names like Vanderbilt and Astor. Martha, being the schemer that she was, saw this as a perfect opportunity to introduce her newly single granddaughter to some wealthy American men.
Mary was holding court with about three of them, two of them much older than her and one closer to her age. She didn't find any of them to be particularly spectacular, beyond being wealthy. Having just ended an engagement due to lack of love, she wasn't so ready to jump into another one with someone she merely tolerated. But she smiled and engaged in polite conversation at least. That would make Martha happy.