"Literally?" Juliana asked with an amused smile as she waved the nearest staff member over. "I don't imagine your mother would have attempted it a second time, if that's the case. You would have made quite the scene, behaving like that."

The attendant arrived and Juliana opened the tea menu just long enough to point out one of her favorites from the green tea menu, and asked for a plate of raspberry scones as well. Raspberry went well with green tea, she thought. Most fruit-filled things did, while the heavier sweets such as those featuring chocolate and nuts were best reserved to accompany black tea. Unless the dessert was so rich it was served with cream, in which case all bets were off. Even the strongest tea couldn't hold its ground against a dessert so dense it required cream to offset it.

"The parties aren't so bad," she continued after the staff member had departed. "Dinner parties can be particularly enjoyable, with the right company. I was never particularly good at dancing — I forget the steps — but it's easy to find other things to do, and some of them are quite entertaining. At the very least," she said with a mischevious smile, "If you have one or two good friends in attendance, you can always resort to making fun of all the other guests, and that only gets more amusing the duller the party generally is."