>Nice. Looking forward to the finished product. I'm a big fan of your
>depiction of wealthy eccentricity.

Yeah, pretty much this. You can't see it in text, but the snippet made me grin a lot.

�They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.�
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington