Madeline Beaufort and the Moon Thief

be a good, no, great host. plaster on a smile, tell him to take a load off in the living room, then quickly make him a pot of coffee and a pot of tea and get out mommy's good wine and bring it all out on a silver tray with sugar cubes and milk and crackers and cheese to place on the coffee table. then immediately break down into inconsolable tears and collapse onto the floor as a sobbing mass