MKPoM: answers: marriage update

Marriage Competition hots up!

Minty doesn't seem to have a question as such, but her letter is worth quoting as a model for young ladies studying the art of correspondence:

I come from a poor but honest family who have served in our village for many years, but now his lordship has passed on and I am looking for a new master to serve. I know I cannot hope to become your wife for my ethereal beauty in no way makes up for my lack of education, but I am sure you could find a position that will satisfy me, young master Kelly. Minty. P.S. I am very good at baking. It's my second favorite activity.

Let's not knock ethereal beauty. This would at least be something we shared in common and we could discuss what a burden it can be.

Minty: happy-go-lucky serving wench?

Meanwhile, Jo the potential child-bride has written again:

To my Lord, my Master, my dearest Michael: I cannot describe the joy that flowed through my robust, youthful body when I saw Your response to my humble letter. I am neither a giggling urchin nor a sophisticated young woman. I am but a simple girl. My mother was Amish and my father a Pennsylvanian goatherd. I have excellent housekeeping skills.

Jo: placid Amish bint?

I was going to arrange for Jo and Minty to fight it out for me somehow, possibly involving a bake-off and shimmying contest, but then I thought, what the hell, there's enough of me to go around. So I am currently arranging to convert to Mormonism and will get back to both of you when I do. I will also need to apply for planning permission to add a seraglio extension to my bedroom, or arrange to buy hammocks.