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Post by KATHERINE MINOLA on Jan 22, 2011 17:10:55 GMT -5
"You are aware you aren't allowed to smoke inside this building, aren't you?"
Katherine smirked at Lady Catherine's snobbish remark. In reply, she took another puff right in front of her, blowing smoke above their heads.
"I'm not an idiot. I know I shouldn't be smoking here. I really couldn't care less about silly little bi-laws right now, and to be frank, this whole thing was giving me a headache. This is the last time I let anyone drag me along to these things."
Katherine grinned as she stood up and leaned against the stall door, the cigarette still firmly between the index and middle fingers of her right hand. She then used her left hand to smooth out the skirt of her light gray suit.
"So, how do you end up here, Your Ladyship?" she asked in a half-assed attempt to make small talk in an attempt to curb her growing boredom.
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Post by LADY CATHERINE DE BOURGH on Jan 22, 2011 17:37:28 GMT -5
"I'm not an idiot. I know I shouldn't be smoking here. I really couldn't care less about silly little bi-laws right now, and to be frank, this whole thing was giving me a headache. This is the last time I let anyone drag me along to these things."
Lady Catherine rolled her eyes. Was she the only person that had come to this event voluntarily? She replaced her blusher in her bag; she got the impression ignoring this woman, however rude she was, would not be a wise plan.
"So, how do you end up here, Your Ladyship?"
Lady Catherine had to admit her temper was somewhat eased by this woman's automatic knowledge of who she was (that is to say, not her alter ego for the Times).
"I happen to read the magazine this event is promoting," she said. "And yourself?"
Lady Catherine thought this woman, whoever she was, didn't look the sort to be at such an event as this. Then again, she was rather judgemental. Rather being an understatement.
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Post by rocky on Jan 22, 2011 17:42:41 GMT -5
"So, how do you end up here, Your Ladyship?"
"An excellent question," Adrienne said, with an inward smirk. An ally, then. "She's so much better than the rest of us I'm amazed she deigned to show her face."
The situation was taking on a twisted familiarity. Adrienne had generally been on the receiving end of bitchy little girls circling her like vultures and smoking in the toilets, but the similarity was not lost on her now. It didn't prevent her from feeling bolstered by the presence of the mystery woman, however, much as it didn't matter how much she was going to regret such childish behaviour later.
This was war.
"I happen to read the magazine this event is promoting. And yourself?"
Adrienne snorted. She'd read the magazine and swan into the building as though she owned it, but she hadn't much respect for the people who made it.
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Post by KATHERINE MINOLA on Jan 22, 2011 18:18:59 GMT -5
"I happen to read the magazine this event is promoting," she said. "And yourself?"
Katherine smirked and replied caustically "My friend dragged me here as her guest. She loves this magazine. I don't even read it. Thus she's out there, and I'm in here with Her Highness and...I don't have your name yet." She turned to the red-haired young woman who had been trading barbs with Lady Catherine. The woman then spoke up.
"She's so much better than the rest of us I'm amazed she deigned to show her face."
Katherine laughed out loud. "Oh ho, a bold response. I don't think her Ladyship approves. The world doesn't always revolve around you Lady Catherine, at least not most of the time." She grinned as she looked down at her cigarette, which was nearing it's end.
"Sometimes it revolves around a cigarette," She took one last puff and threw the stub into the toilet. "And sometimes it revolves around a good stiff martini." She smiled dreamily, the idea of a drink sounding like a very good one right now...
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Post by rocky on Jan 23, 2011 9:45:58 GMT -5
"Adrienne Heart, unworthy columnist," Adrienne introduced herself, and offered the woman her hand as though they were meeting very demurely at a garden party, and not amidst trading barbs in the ladies' room.
She glanced at Lady Catherine, and raised her eyebrows at her. Well, what now, your ladyship? she thought, looking smug. Adrienne didn't like the idea that she ought to be intimidated just on the basis of class. She didn't like the impression she got that Lady Catherine thought she was a more talented writer than Ade was -- she answered letters, nothing else.
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Post by LADY CATHERINE DE BOURGH on Jan 23, 2011 11:18:27 GMT -5
"She's so much better than the rest of us I'm amazed she deigned to show her face."
Lady Catherine was not at all pleased with this comment. She threw rather a nasty look Adrienne's way but before she could make a reply the obnoxious woman with the cigarette had butted in again.
"Oh ho, a bold response. I don't think her Ladyship approves. The world doesn't always revolve around you Lady Catherine, at least not most of the time."
Her Ladyship turned slightly to direct her glare this woman's way; a glare intensified by the disgusting way in which she disposed of her cigarette. Honestly.
As Adrienne introduced herself to the woman, Her Ladyship grew all the more infuriated. It seemed these two were now allied against her...and for what? She'd been polite this entire time; it was Adrienne who'd aksed awkward questions and made her angry! And her raised eyebrows at this precise moment in time weren't helping.
Lady Catherine reverted her attention to the woman who'd previously been smoking, tone still full of disdain despitethe fact it was now two against one.
"You know who we are," she said. "But we don't know you. Who are you?"
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Post by KATHERINE MINOLA on Jan 23, 2011 13:58:55 GMT -5
Katherine grinned coldly at Lady Catherine, and turned to the other woman, Adrienne, who had her hand outstretched towards to her, hoping for an ally.
Well, she wasn't going to be disappointed today. Katherine took her hand and shook it firmly.
"Katherine Minola, at your service." She then turned her back for a moment and flushed the toilet. It wasn't polite to leave cigarette butt just floating in the bowl.
"So, your Ladyship, what will today's lesson be?" Katherine asked in a snarky tone, delighted at the prospect of irritating the socialite, even if it was just to stave off boredom for a while...
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Post by LADY CATHERINE DE BOURGH on Jan 23, 2011 17:06:11 GMT -5
"Katherine Minola, at your service."
Lady Catherine had never heard of such a woman, it it couldn't be said she was entirely thrilled to be in her precense. She scowled more than before, if possible, at the firm handshake between these two women who were evidently against her. She considered simply leaving; why continue to waste her precious time with such people? And yet at the same time she knew if she left they would consider it a victory. Her Ladyship couldn't have them thinking they had beaten her. That would never do.
"So, your Ladyship, what will today's lesson be?"
Her Ladyship didn't approve of Miss Minola's tone. Didn't she or this Heart woman realize to whom they were speaking? Why, they should be on bended kne asking forgiveness for being so disagreeable. But no, this was not the case. How dissapointing.
"What do you mean by that?" she inquired, her tone no less haugty and irritable.
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Post by KATHERINE MINOLA on Jan 25, 2011 12:26:06 GMT -5
Katherine smirked. "Your Ladyship always has something teach her inferiors. How properly grovel and snivel and what will you when speaking to their "betters". That kind of thing. Though I don't know why a wealthy, immaculate socialite like yourself would deign to dirty her hands over a poor columnist and a banker."
At this, she folded her arms and leaned against the sink, taking complete pleasure in infuriating the snot-nosed woman. She threw a knowing glance at Adrienne, waiting for her to join in the fun...
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Post by rocky on Jan 25, 2011 14:13:52 GMT -5
Adrienne licked her lips and adopted an innocent look that failed entirely to suit her, or to convince anybody. She followed it up with a devilish smirk in Katherine's direction. Oh, she was amused.
"Oh, didn't you know?" she asked. "We should be grateful."
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Post by LADY CATHERINE DE BOURGH on Jan 25, 2011 15:24:09 GMT -5
"Oh, didn't you know? We should be grateful."
Adrienne's feigned innocence and later devilish smirk were not winning her any favours with Her Ladyship of Rosings Park. However, Katherine Minola was swiftly becoming just as bad, if not worse, in Lady Catherine's eyes.
"Your Ladyship always has something teach her inferiors. How properly grovel and snivel and what will you when speaking to their "betters". That kind of thing. Though I don't know why a wealthy, immaculate socialite like yourself would deign to dirty her hands over a poor columnist and a banker."
Lady Catherine laughed, somewhat derisivley, at Minola's comments. Surely it wasn't all that terrible for her to wish to be respected? She was titled after all. She voiced these thoughts to the other two thus;
"Miss Minola. Surely it is not wrong of me to wish to be accorded with the respect my title deserves?"
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Post by KATHERINE MINOLA on Jan 29, 2011 16:14:10 GMT -5
"Miss Minola. Surely it is not wrong of me to wish to be accorded with the respect my title deserves?"
Katherine threw her head back and laughed loud and mockingly at Lady Catherine's remark.
"It's not the position or title people respect, it's the person - most of the time anyway. If it's someone who has power over you in some way, then that's a totally different situation. Being nasty to your boss won't get you anywhere but in the unemployment line, even if said boss is just as nasty as you are." She eyed the socialite and smirked as she continued,
"Now you...you have no influence or power in my life. Add that up with your holier-than-thou attitude towards the rest of the lowly world, and I have nothing compelling me to respect you. Your title means nothing to me. It's just a name denoting your position on the social ladder, nothing more. How's that for an answer, your ladyship?"
Katherine leaned back and waited for her little speech to work its magic...
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Post by rocky on Jan 29, 2011 16:26:36 GMT -5
"I wouldn't waste my breath," Adrienne muttered, her voice low. "The concept of earning anything is surely lost on this one. I don't suppose you've any more of those cigarettes?"
She wasn't a smoker until she was stressed. This was the first time since the ban that she'd really felt the need to have one, and it only further added to the flavour of the situation -- school toilets, the eighties, wearing so much make-up that it was clumping... adulthood wasn't all that different, really.
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Post by LADY CATHERINE DE BOURGH on Jan 29, 2011 16:53:43 GMT -5
"It's not the position or title people respect, it's the person - most of the time anyway. If it's someone who has power over you in some way, then that's a totally different situation. Being nasty to your boss won't get you anywhere but in the unemployment line, even if said boss is just as nasty as you are."
Lady Catherine rolled her eyes.
"Now you...you have no influence or power in my life. Add that up with your holier-than-thou attitude towards the rest of the lowly world, and I have nothing compelling me to respect you. Your title means nothing to me. It's just a name denoting your position on the social ladder, nothing more. How's that for an answer, your ladyship?"
"My title means nothing to you?" Her Ladyship replied, seeming to ignore the logic of Katherine's answer in favour of her usual hysterics when people failed to comprehend who she was.
The muttering from Adrienne, what little she heard of it, did little to improve her mood.
"The concept of earning anything is surely lost on this one. I don't suppose you've any more of those cigarettes?"
Lady Catherine drew herself up to her full height, her fury now at fever pitch.
"Young lady, I wouldn't do that if I were you. I could report you both, you know, for so blatantly flouting the law!"
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Post by KATHERINE MINOLA on Jan 29, 2011 18:06:33 GMT -5
Katherine snorted contemptuously at De Bourgh. "It's a stupid law in my opinion. And laws like that are the ones made to be broken. Besides, if, by some miracle, the police do come, I've got my pepper spray with me." She patted her purse confidently and smirked as she opened it. She took out her silver cigarette box, flipped open the lid and passed it over to Adrienne.
"It's my last one. take it. I'm trying to quit actually. I'm not sure how I'd survive moments like this without a cigarette though." Katherine smiled affably at her as she spoke. She took out her matching silver lighter with her free hand and passed it to Adrienne before shutting the lid of her cigarette case and putting it back in her purse.
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