"I guess that's the urgent stuff, sure."

And so Lucette will manage to get most of a reasonable night's sleep.

And Haru Swan, Duke of Beruna, will go to the guest house and eat what is locally a midnight snack and go to bed to try to acclimate to the time zone.

The next day Lucette checks with Haru as to whether he would be available to attend a small dinner in the evening.

Yes. Can he get a crash course on Londoner dinner etiquette please. Also maybe loaner clothes that are more appropriate, for while he arrived in what is definitely the traditional costume of Narnia he only has the one outfit.

Lucette has a distant cousin who is approximately the same size and she can prevail upon their household for clothes and have them adjusted by a tailor Haru can meet with this afternoon.

"As for etiquette... I suppose I can go over silverware usage, when it is acceptable to unbutton a suit, what sort of language to avoid, and perhaps what general topics one should avoid. I am not sure what else to cover - I expect you can decline to dance without it being impolite given that you only just arrived."

"Is that a very courting activity? I don't mind learning the local dances, being familiar only with the Narnian variety."

"Dances are mildly a courting activity. Given that you aren't empowered only likewise unempowered might interpret them in that light and there is substantially less pressure for them to court each other regardless."

"If I'm here for the long haul I should know how to dance, maybe you can point me to somebody who wouldn't mind teaching me and won't read into it too much."

Lucette wouldn't mind teaching him but would read something into it and more importantly other people would read something into it.

"Yes, I expect I can find you an appropriate tutor."

"Thanks."

The tailor has an opening earlier in the afternoon so they get to that before etiquette lessons. As it turns out there are several different suits available for him, as well as the option of having embellishments sewn on or added - small tactfully placed gems are popular, as is a minor amount of lace or a flower pinned above the left breast.

He does not have strong fashion opinions but the lace is kind of girly in, uh, Narnia, so maybe not that if he's narrowing it down.

Some gems then, since without any adornment it would appear overly plain for the current season which does not feature so many of the accessories as when this jacket was last fashionable.

Yeah, sure, he like gems. Blue matches his eyes, if they have anything really dark blue.

They do! They also have a dark blue suit that can be matched with slightly lighter gems if he prefers that to the black suit with dark blue gems.

He will defer on this, he's, uh, accustomed to the Narnian traditional costume and having others handle his wardrobe when anything else is called for.

The dark blue suit with lighter gems it is. It's unfortunate that there isn't a suit the right color to do the reverse.

"Please don't worry about it, it's gracious of your household to accommodate me on such short notice regardless."

The tailor isn't actually affiliated with the household and the man who brought over the clothes was just a servant but it's understandable that a foreigner would be confused about this.

The suit will be ready in time for the evening along with more casual wear options for future informal wear. Would he like to figure out the remainder of his formal wardrobe now or another time?

Now's fine, there's nothing else on his schedule at the moment.

It turns out there is rather a lot to decide on when putting together an entire wardrobe.

...well, his opinions are all about what looks comfortable to move in and what looks girly to Narnian sensibilities but he can have opinions and also if necessary make arbitrary decisions.

That will suffice.

"Oh, are you still at this - Mr. Hull I'll have to steal Haru away for etiquette lessons I apologize. We'll have to figure out his next round of outfits another time."