The Starfleet Dinner and Dance
Karissa Elizabeth Ann Lowell is preparing for her first Starfleet Dinner and Dance with Lt. Kevin Thomas Riley and Lt. Richard Williams.
They are going to make it a threesome and Madame Valois walks into Karissa's suite, and she tells her "Mademoiselle Karissa. You had a visitor today while you were out."
"A visitor who?" Karissa asks.
"Lord Andrew Charles Howard." Madame Valois tells her.
"I didn't tell him where you were." Madame Valois tells her with a laugh, "He said he would return."
"Lord Preppy may return if he likes, but I will not be here." Karissa tells her. "He will never find me."
"Lord Howard is most persistent. I may need to call in Lord Carey." Madame tells her.
"I don't why Lord Howard keeps bothering me. His family gave me a bad first impression when they invited me over to Norfolk Estate and you call them civilized." Karissa asks Madame Valois.
"They acted like a pack of barbarians." Karissa tells Madame Valois "I couldn't even call them couth."
"If this is what the aristocracy is all about. You may keep it." Karissa tells Madame Valois.
"Mademoiselle, not all aristocrats behave that way." Madame Valois states.
"I am afraid the French aristocrats act differently. "Madame Valois explains, "We have different customs."
"Please tell Lord Howard next time he comes over that I am busy and to make an appointment so he won't be wasting a trip." Karissa asks Madame Valois.
Karissa continues to get dressed for the Star-Fleet Academy dinner and dance and Madame smiles and says, "You look very charming."
"I look forward to this dinner and dance with Kevin and Richard. I am so glad to have ordinary friends that are not a part of the aristocracy." Karissa tells Madame Valois.
"All the students are just ordinary people from ordinary families and that is what makes them special to me. Karissa tells Madame Valois.
"It seems to me the aristocracy thinks they are different from the ordinary people or what you call commoners, but the fact is that the only difference between us is that we don't have fancy titles, property or wealth." Karissa tells her.
"At Least the commoners can marry for love, and they are not married by their fathers and placed on the marriage block." Karissa tells Madame Valois.
"I can't imagine what a daughter of an aristocrat feels like she is placed on the marriage market for the sake of alliances." Karissa tells Madame Valois.
"I can just picture when they two have their honeymoon and she has to bed a man that she barely knows and expects to have his children." Karissa tells Madame Valois.
"The husband is crude, a terrible lover, and drops dead after having sex with his new bride." Karissa tells Madame Valois.
Madame Valois laughs " You have described it very well." Madame Valois tells her."
"I will never marry a man that I don't love, and he better be a great lover and he better give me a daughter on the first try." Karissa tells Madame Valois.
"You are certainly given the gentleman you seek a tall order to fulfill." Madame tells Karissa.
"Tall order indeed but I will not marry the man that doesn't give me my daughter." Karissa states " I don't care if he is an aristocrat or commoner."
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