Very different customs. No calling cards. Women and men just talk as they please. Lower and upper classes mingle without regard for status. It's interesting.

[He said as he savored a piece of cake. He didn't entirely mind all the social changes, being a man of progress who looked towards the future. He could even recognize the sense in many of these changes.

But he was also a member of the nobility who had been raised to keep such things in mind. It was a bit jarring sometimes and a lesser person would have cracked by now.]

Oh Kevin? He's my butler and house steward. He's out right now, so that's why you haven't meet him.