Editing Your Salon: invite the Duchess as a guest of honour

{{Action
|ID = 109344
|Icon = Duchess.png
|From Card/Storylet title = The Tower of Eyes: Behind Closed Doors at a Handsome Townhouse
|Action cost = 2
|Description = ...would she attend? She is not an easy guest, but she has a brilliant mind and a wondrously savage tongue. And you have an old friend of hers in your household.
|Game Instructions = This may mean you lose your Midnight Matriarch.
|Unlocked with = {{Unlock|A Salon|1 x}}, {{Unlock|Engaged in a Scheme: a Salon}} 12, {{Unlock|Connected: The Duchess}} 10, {{Unlock|Midnight Matriarch|1 x}}, {{Unlock|The Airs of London}} 25–50
|Success title = A rapprochement
|Success description = The Duchess arrives punctually {{...}} It is a full hour before she comes face-to-face with the Matriarch {{...}}

{{...}} "Your impertinence is more charming than I had remembered."

When the evening ends, they are still talking. They leave together. 
|Success summary = The Duchess and the Matriarch resolve an ancient disagreement.}}
*{{Item Loss|Midnight Matriarch|1 x}}

*{{Drop|Engaged in a Scheme: a Salon|-65 CP}}
*{{Gain|Making Waves|+850 CP}}
*{{Airs|The Airs of London}}
*{{Gain|Intriguing Snippet|1 x}}
*{{Gain|Favour in High Places|1 x}}

{{Rare Success
|Rare Success title = An ancient enmity
|Rare Success description = The Duchess arrives punctually {{...}} a full hour before she comes face-to-face with the Matriarch {{...}}

{{...}} "I have enjoyed your hospitality. A pity that you permit vermin under your roof. Yonder on the table! Is that a fat black rat?"

{{...}}

The guests filter out {{...}} hastily {{...}}
|Rare Success summary = The Duchess and the Matriarch have a disagreement about a promise the Matriarch made in the days of the Copper. The Matriarch ends it by insulting the Duchess, then ignoring her in a feline manner. The Duchess thanks you for the hospitality, insulting the Matriarch in the process, and leaves, followed by everyone else. The Matriarch is not amused and wants to be left alone.}}

*{{Drop|Engaged in a Scheme: a Salon|-65 CP}}
*{{Gain|Making Waves|+650 CP}}
*{{Airs|The Airs of London}}
*{{Gain|Intriguing Snippet|1 x}}