Wow, Mr. "There's no such thing as ghosts" Roger Collins actually insists on having a seance to contact ghosts....so when did he turn into such a skeptic later on?
What I like is how, before a s©ance just a couple of months later, Liz comments, "You know that Roger doesn't like s©ances."
I keep being surprised at the timing of things. I remembered Maggie as wandering endlessly through the Old House dressed as Josette, but her appearances turned out to be quite few, and I remembered the leadup to the Party as going on forever, and it took just a week.
Here's the lesson I learned from this episode: if you're going to throw a party, be prepared. Have an alternative amusement in mind in case the conversation flags or if a guest suggests a s©ance that you'd prefer to avoid. Also, if the party is going to be in a house that does not have central heating, and if your lady guests are planning to have some upper areas of the body uncovered, be sure to have some good thick shawls available. Not, of course, that it would have done any good in this case, since the cause of the chill was not physical.
I do, however, like the idea of the family innocently sitting down to a s©ance with somebody who is a little too intimately acquainted with the centuries-old ghosts whom they are trying to summon. And it was fun seeing a Millicent-doppelganger who didn't act like MIllicent - although I think I noticed Millicent's laugh at some point, in the drawing room at Collinwood. Hmm...maybe Elizabeth and Carolyn weren't being as silly as I thought.
