Vela had found the challenges of London exciting.  She had made quite a name for herself there but had decided that she was ready to spread her wings out from her parents' and their friends' influences.   Also, the different kind of work she hoped to create for herself was going to work better outside of the big city households.  For now, anyway.

The kind of business she was hoping to create was new and different.  The world was changing, and many of the big families were having to change how they ran their homes.  Her own family had been required to change a few things in their household staff. As the older staff was retiring, some families were promoting current staff and not hiring new staff for the less necessary tasks.  Many families were doing more things for themselves.  Though some families were maintaining the old ways and were struggling.  Others were doing fine, of course. 

Her new business was making it possible to maintain the look of the fancy dinners and events with the quality of a professional chef without the cost of hiring a full-time proper chef.  The work she had started doing was to work with the current kitchen staff and work with the full-time cook (who might be paid less than a fancy full-time chef) to create amazing dinners for the client. 

She had started this idea in London and gotten several very happy clients.  Granted though, for some it had been just to get people to come to see if Vela could be as good as they heard she was or if she was just being spoiled by her family in letting her "play" at being a proper chef.  She had been quite proud to show them that the rumor of her skill wasn't a lie.

To really test her new business though, she had to get out from the wings of her family and friends.  She had gotten several contacts from various people that had heard about her work in London.  These were people that she had not known previously, so not through her parents.   The McPadraic family was one of the big families in the area and having been contacted to meet with someone there had made her very happy and excited. 

She dressed up in a deep green plain walking dress with puffy shoulders and arms that had cuffs that fell down from the elbow with buttons.  There were two sets of the same kind of buttons down the bodice of the dress.  The lower arms had white sleeves that fitted her slender arms.  A wide v-shaped collar went over her shoulders and allowed the neckline up along her slender neck end with a rose-colored ribbon.  A white lace fell down from her throat but not quite over the v collar. (image of dress).  Her hair was up in a twisted bun along the back of her head and her hat matched the material of the dress, with two white feathers and two rose colored roses. 

As she entered the room having already pulled off her gloves and held them in one hand along with her leather notebook, she nodded with a slightly lower of her head and greeted the gentleman.  "It is my pleasure to meet you.  I am still getting set up here in Whitby, and you will be my first formal client in the area.  I must be honest and say all that I have heard of your family is that is one of the more known families in town, and so having you invite me over to discuss a coming event is an honor."

"What have you heard about how I work?"  She asked politely to figure out how best to go forward.