[Auspicious Happenings]

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"Where is that rotten girl!?" Matilda Swanson hissed, face as red as a tomato, and hands as white as clean linen. She paced the foyer with an air of vengence.
Evangeline - the 'rotten girl'- had once again slipped out during the night to meet with her gypsy lover Mihai.
Constance - said girls maid- rushed into the room, paler than the moon. "M-Milady... She's gone for good, she left a note" she stammered.
Matilda snatched the parchment from the maids hands and read it at a furious pace, lips drawing into a thin, severe line. "This is rubbish! What does that cow headed girl intend to do with that... That... Gypsy!" she spat the last word like it tasted of poison. "She can't possibly hope to live happily with him..." she glowered.
She paced some more before sitting -ungracefully in a chair- "She'll come home... She always does" she sighed.
" That isn't the biggest problem Dearest" Lyle - her husband- noted darkly. He was a thin slip of a man, mousy and underwhelming when compared to his verbose and strict wife. He adjusted his spectacles nervously. " Evangeline was set to leave for the palace tomorrow... What are we to do... If we don't comply with this marriage... We are all ruined" he stammered.
Outside, unaware of the turmoil outside, a thin, slightly under average height boy with silky brown treses laid back in the garden, eyes closed and daydreaming.
Matilda looked out the window at her son and got an idea.
"... We are not done for yet... "she noted, brow furrowed.
Lyle followed her glance and stiffened. "Surely you do not mean... " he began.
She stood again, resolute. " He will have to do... Dressed in Evangeline's clothing, nobody will be able to tell them apart" she stated, rubbing her chin thoughtfully.
"B-But, what if the Prince finds out...?" Lyle hissed.
Matilda grinned like the cat who got the canary. "It will not matter if he consents to the marriage... As long as we are not the ones to break off the engagement, then we are not at fault " she said.
And with that she sent the maid to fetch her son.