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Witch Weekly · March 30, 2020 – 1:14 AM

If You’ve Done More Than 25 Of These, You Won’t Survive The Season...

In your social life, you have...

1. Not returned the visit when someone has called upon you, even if she is the most disagreeable cow you have ever met.
2. Had more than two glasses of champagne at a party.
3. Chosen something stronger than champagne.
4. Spilled a drink on someone.
5. Forgotten to draw on your gloves or fix your hair until you’re in public again.
6. Worn the same, hardly-altered gown that you wore a mere week ago, hoping that none of the guests at this occasion saw you there.
7. Stepped on anyone’s toes.
8. Thought you might dance a third quadrille at one ball with the same gentleman.
9. Decided to dance a fourth with them, and hope everyone just thinks you’re engaged.
10. Made a habit disappearing for ‘fresh air’ and retiring to the balconies, gardens, or private rooms down the hall.
11. Called anyone who is not family or a dear friend of your girlhood by their first name.
12. Forgotten the name of someone to whom you have definitely been introduced.
13. Yawned in public.
14. Used slang in respectable conversation.
15. Sworn in respectable conversation.
16. Uttered a political opinion.
17. Uttered a political opinion in the company of a gentleman.
18. More often frowned than smiled in company.
19. Shared something that was told to you in confidence.
20. Walked with too quick a gait.
21. Gone anywhere alone.
22. Worn your hair down and loose.
23. Lied about your womanly accomplishments.
24. Bullied a lesser young lady into embarrassing herself at the pianoforte.
25. Told anyone you don’t care much for children.
26. Eaten more than either person sitting beside you at the dinner table.
27. Offered encouragement to an eligible man you really have no intention of courting.
28. Ever made the slightest remark about a bachelor’s mother behind her back.
29. Told another young lady that that colour suits her spectacularly, when in truth it is quite displeasing.
30. Or vice versa.

31. Been unable to sit still in the parlour.
32. Started daydreaming and missed half a conversation.
33. Cared more about winning at a card game than being demure.
34. Cared more about quidditch that the gentleman with whom you are conversing.
35. Absented from another social engagement in order to go watch a quidditch match.
36. Brought a book with you to any social occasion, lest you find the company too dull.
37. Sent out an invitation to any gathering far too late for the recipients to possibly come.
38. Gossiped to your friends.
39. Gossiped to your servants.
40. Gossiped to the shop assistant or acquaintances in the street.
41. Refused to laugh at a remark that was intended to amuse.
42. Laughed at a remark that was not intended to amuse.
43. Pretended you have been to Paris more recently than you have.
44. Had a friend lie for you.
45. Had a maid lie for you.
46. Had a man lie for you.
47. Lost an item of clothing in a public place or party.
48. Debated taking up a career.
49. Considered eloping.
50. Eloped.

0 - 1: You’re a true angel, but that one misstep will haunt you forevermore.

2 - 15: Most of us make mistakes. Try a little harder to be perfect and you’ll survive.

16 - 25: There’s a bad influence somewhere in your life. Cut them out.

26 - 40: Tut, tut, tut. You call yourself eligible? Because no one else does.

41+: Are you sure you’re not part mountain troll?

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