When exactly the little paper booklet was slipped into his satchel is likely a mystery; the Club's kitchen has been outfitted with a series of hooks and miscellaneous pegs near the backdoor for the hanging of bags and coats and weather wet cloaks and so on which would have made the smuggling of such a thing fall well within her abilities. Perhaps it is secreted there when Fitz and Ellis are working in one of the countless rooms upstairs, or when she leaves him to his gardening in favor of escaping the heat.

Regardless, at some point he will discover Madame Seifrida Brugiere's Illustrated Guide of Court Dances in this Summer the year of 9:46, as translated by Gwenant Caddell - more pamphlet than book, though its papers are saddle stitched to imitate the latter - in among his things. The note scrawled directly inside the cover reads thus:

Mr. Ellis,

I would like to attempt one of these Orlesian dances during Satinalia and have plans to bribe Monsieur Bastien to see it come to pass (whether he will be playing whatever party must occur is immaterial; he has the air of a person willing to go to great lengths for the sake of a young lady's whims so long as they are rather harmless and silly). Would you be up to the task of learning one? Otherwise I will be forced to find an alternative partner and I dread to think who in Riftwatch would even begin to qualify.

Sincerely,
W.A. Poppell