The next day, one of the maids traveled to Brookfield, the town nearest the Vanderbilt estate.
Brookfield was a sophisticated haven built for those of considerable means, a place where nobility, powerful merchants, and the exceedingly wealthy conducted their gilded lives.
The maid, Sophie, made her way to a teahouse favored by the town’s most prominent women. It was an elegant establishment where wives, their daughters, and their attendants
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