I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing could divert them from the regular and faithful performance of the pieties enjoined by the Church.
- A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
They've announced the convention will resume on Toilday. The dinner before it resumes Carlota intends to invite all the members of her Safe Roads, Safe Villages committee, so that she can anticipate any objections and schedule an early Toilday vote, but that leaves the Starday and Sunday dinners for conventional entertaining. She invites the dukes and duchesses she hasn't met yet, those counts and countesses she wants to compliment, and a few of the elected representatives who she trusts to be flattered to be in such company and then vote her way in the future.