Caroline Edwin and Virginia Daniel arrived downstairs.
Today's guests were like clouds, including entertainment and business moguls, scientific researchers, and noble families; a glance around the room would reveal that any random individual plucked from the crowd was among the gifted.
Caroline moved through the guests with Virginia, engaging in conversation, sending regards, and providing impeccable manners and attentive hospitality, cool and composed in a manner befitting high society.
She was completely at ease in such a setting, with no sense of pressure on her shoulders.
After chatting with Lilian Rose, Alison Thomson, and others, her gaze swept around the crowd, searching for her teacher clad in a Tang suit, his hair a silvery gray.
Caroline approached Norman Swift, "Teacher."
Norman paused his conversations with others, looking at the person before him with a smile full of contentment and a gaze that held both pride and a hint of wistfulness.
