Lord Whitley was impressed with the young man. He hoped that his daughter will fall in love with him quickly. He got up and rang the bell for Jefferies. When the head butler came in, Lord Whitley handed him the note.<br/><br/>"Jefferies, please take this to Lady Whitley at once." was the simple command. The butler just nodded and left to deliver the message.<br/><br/>"Yes, my eldest is the most intelligent of my children. Even more so that my son. She has a habit of reading anything that she gets her hands on. Mathmatics are very good tho my son excels in that area. She does fine needle work and knows how to run a household very well. her mother has worked with her so that our eldest daughter would hve all of the skills required in a wife, except in the area of the ummm, the marriage bed which of course that will be up to her husband when she gets one."<br/><br/>Meanwhile, Lady Whitley had received the letter and shooed a maid off to find Roweena. She then had another maid pull out the bolts of cloth so that a final decision would be made not only in the cloth but in the design as well. Soon everything would be in a busy state of mind and many decisions would be made that night.<br/><br/>Roweena was leaning on the wall waiting for the young man to come out when the maid found her. She hurried off to see her mother.<br/><br/>"Mother! What is it that you want me for?" Roweena asked when she arrived back in the sitting.<br/>'We must make prompt decisions tonight. The ball has been moved up to this Friday night. I knew that I should have made you decide early and now I wonder if you will have a new ball gown in time for the ball. Who can I get to make it this late I just don't know.' Lady Whitley moaned as she sat down and looked over the bolts once again.<br/><br/>"I'll have Amy do the dress. She is a fine seamstress and she can easily be my maid. I already know the pattern and which cloth I want." Roweena spoke calmly to her mother. She then turned to Amy who was waiting in the corner.<br/>"Amy, please go get your sketch pad, please."