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uncalendula) wrote2015-12-20 12:01 am
uncalendula) wrote2015-12-20 12:01 am
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{rping} Scholarly Interest
WHO Evelyn Carnahan & Arthur Kirkland
WHERE Arthur's home
CANON Some 1930s AU
SCENARIO "Scholarly interest" sounds a lot better than "huge crush."
[An evening with one of England's premier historians came unexpected, as acquisitions talks are wont to do, but refusing the quiet invitation of an associate of the British Museum (and immensely well-known patron of the arts) was tantamount to sedition. It was most peculiar, of course, working in the same circles - small ones, where everyone knows everyone else - for people not to fraternise, drink socially, and attend galas, but personal requests for company?
The Bembridge Scholars might scoff from their hideous wing-backed chairs, but Evelyn didn't claw her way up through archaeology and curation to be humiliated and close relationships with affluent eccentrics should be fostered, not scorned. (Of course, it does help that the aforementioned historian is a gentleman she shyly fancies.)
Nightfall sees her with several manuscripts in her satchel, wearing a dress of flattering style that abstains from ostentation for the sake of professional propriety.
She knocks thrice.]
WHERE Arthur's home
CANON Some 1930s AU
SCENARIO "Scholarly interest" sounds a lot better than "huge crush."
[An evening with one of England's premier historians came unexpected, as acquisitions talks are wont to do, but refusing the quiet invitation of an associate of the British Museum (and immensely well-known patron of the arts) was tantamount to sedition. It was most peculiar, of course, working in the same circles - small ones, where everyone knows everyone else - for people not to fraternise, drink socially, and attend galas, but personal requests for company?
The Bembridge Scholars might scoff from their hideous wing-backed chairs, but Evelyn didn't claw her way up through archaeology and curation to be humiliated and close relationships with affluent eccentrics should be fostered, not scorned. (Of course, it does help that the aforementioned historian is a gentleman she shyly fancies.)
Nightfall sees her with several manuscripts in her satchel, wearing a dress of flattering style that abstains from ostentation for the sake of professional propriety.
She knocks thrice.]