PART ONE
| Once upon a time |
| there were Twenty Lovesick Maidens... |
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...well, six. They tended to dramatize. |
The poet Reginald Bunthorne
was the very cynosure of their
hearts and minds.
...but his weird fancy had alighted, for the nonce, on Patience, the village milkmaid. This frightened her. |
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The Queen’s Dragoon Guards: ...under the misapprehension that the Rapturous Maidens were still engaged to them. |
Archibald Grosvenor -- A broken-hearted troubadour whose mind's aesthetic and whose tastes are pure. |
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He was Patience’s childhood sweetheart, but when she learned that love must be painfully selfless sacrifice, she knew that so perfect a romance couldn’t possibly qualify as love. |
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… thereby freeing the Rapturous Maidens to return to their old, old loves, the Heavy Dragoons… |
… that is, until they noticed the incredibly Poetic and Aesthetic Archibald Grosvenor! |
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