Thanks! I hope it did not feel like a re-tread! I just got a review that pointed out some of those things -- like the curtseying. And it's funny but the next chapter is very much like that too with the flashback and Mary specifically recalling the first tea in Digory's office. I'm actually pushing into fractured and unconventional families again in the Christmas chapter -- and still trying to figure out how to write Edmund and Jill. Also, wondering about the scene where they decide to give the picture to Asim... whether I need to write that. I don't think I do. And, whether I should recast that scene from Russell House and include it in the chapter. I may do that as a lot of people may not have read it and I can revise it in light of where AW has ended up and probably soften Richard and Mary a bit.

Errr. I dunno.

Have a wonderful time on your trip! Reports! We want them!