Two Milliners

Hiding Inside The Hollow Pedestal Of The Statue Standing Just Outside The Castle Walls Sixteen-Year-Olds Lavinia And Her Visiting-For-The-Summer Cousin Beatrice Develop A Crush On One Of The Night Sentries Patrolling The Perimeter. When By Chance They Learn Of The Debilitating Illness Of The Sentrys Ten-Year-Old Son Benjy They Resolve To Bring Secret Medical Help To The Family After The Duke Lavinias Father Refuses Their Pleas. At The Same Time It Is Summer In The Midlands And The Two Young Ladies Begin To Flirt With Two Lads Their Own Age That They Meet In The Forest. The Working Class Lads Who Serve As Apprentice Milliners Hat-Makers In Town Do Not Suspect At First Anything More Than Romance Is Involved With These Privileged Daughters Of English Nobility. But They Both Soon Become Swept Up In Something More An Ill-Fated Scheme To Kidnap A Sick Lad From His Home While A Doctor Is Deceived By The Disguised-As-Servants Cousins Into Treating The Boy On A Moonlit Forest Trail. The Plan Takes An Unpredictable Tragic Turn When The Mother Of The Boy Is Awakened In The Middle Of The Night To Find Her Son Missing. She Takes The News Directly To Her Husband Walking His Rounds At The Castle And Still Bearing The Sentrys Sword Upon His Hip He Flies On Horseback After The Two Milliners Responsible. Set In Elizabethan England Around 1600 The Book Mixes Adventure And Romance In Equal Measure With The Text In The Form Of A Hollywood Script.