DrabbleWriMo 11: Entertainment

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I'm afraid this definitely is stretching the concept of "entertainment"; shorn of its surrounding banter at the 'banquet', Roland's little recital really doesn't come across as bearing much relationship to the prompt at all! :-(

It was, of course, a great honour to be asked to dine at the Marquis' table; Roland was conscious of that. But he was uncomfortably aware of the reprimand due to him over his unauthorised expedition to Mirabel, and of the fact that he was apparently expected to entertain the company with an account of all that had befallen him there.

He did his best. He still had no idea why his description of the kind lady who had saved him should have smitten upon the Marquis de Kersaint, as it evidently did, with the effect of a stupefying thunderbolt.