Invitations

It's post time! Alice's mood brightens when she is invited to supper with an important dignitary. Bella takes care to thank Count Albani, who seems to have been responsible for negotiating the social invite. Lady Latchmere is less certain about his generosity, suspecting that Albani is interested in romance – though she is more concerned for herself than Bella or Alice.

Lucian and his friend, Nish, run into trouble with Danioni's Blackshirts. Constance is encouraged to make more of her appearance by the hotel's most worldly guest, Claudine Pascal, while Bella throws a tea party for the locals.