KATHERINE'S POV - one week later It had taken a full week, but in the end everything was ready for the Midsummer ball. Everything, from the catering to the table's place cards, had been organized and settled. When dad gave me the job, I considered it a relatively simple task; it when Susan and I started working on the project that same evening that I immediately changed my mind. She had an incredible experience in that kind of stuff, and she had genuinely laughed when I'd showed her the ideas I had had. “Let me give you something that my mother-in-law once gave to me, honey” she had told me, then handed me a sheet; it was a very long list of all the things that had to be planned, bought and reserved only for the Midsummer ball, and seeing it almost made me faint. I honestly never thoug