Adventure! Nothing ever happens here, but things happen there!

Fairly said. In any case, you are off to the capital with your uncle and aunt as soon as your clothing can be made.

From that point on, time seems to move faster than it ever has before. Two months are scarcely enough time to put together the wardrobe you will require as a young lady of the Court: gowns, shoes, scarves, hose and garters, bejeweled trinkets. Almost before you know it, the day of your departure is at hand, and you find yourself jolting over the roads with Uncle Pedro, Aunt Leonor, and Magdalena.

For Magdalena is accompanying you. She is too young to be presented at Court, of course, but your mother and Aunt Leonor thought it would be well for you to have a companion, and well for Magdalena to get an idea of how the Court functions. You wouldn't have thought it would be much fun, to be dragged along to the capital and once there, spend most of the time under Aunt Leonor's supervision and none at all enjoying Court functions–but Magdalena seems delighted. She chatters excitedly the whole jou