If you’d like, I can help you write a set in a Victorian/aristocratic style with a character named Lord Barkwith — just let me know the tone (humorous, dramatic, or romantic) and any plot elements you’d prefer.

: The great ballroom of Blackwood Hall. Date: the annual Harvest Charity Gala. Guest list: one hundred of the county’s most respectable women—patronesses, widows, the vicar’s wife, the schoolmistress, the cook, the scullery maids polished to a gleam. All in their finest gowns. All seated in a silent crescent facing a single empty chair.