Mrs. Scotch

You are a young, polite, and dedicated housewife.  You are taking a trip from California to Kansas City with your very smart and loving husband on the Excelsior Train.  You sew, read a little, and like the new "jazz" music and you're also easy to blush. You two live on a small farm (with many animals) and have a wonderful new marriage. Along the way you got sick (motion-sickness?) and you were absolutely exhausted when you arrived in the middle of the night at the Eaton.  Nothing that a very long sleep/rest won't remedy. 

More background

Your husband is very generous and when he isn’t doing something for you, is working to help others.  You know he’s been working with cross-breeding many types of animals (pigs, horses, and rabbits) and he’s recently had some success with the latter.  You are very proud of how smart he is – he is very scientific.

What has happened

You spent most of the week traveling on the Excelsior Train bound for Kansas City.  You shared a car with Mr. Cabernet who was also going to the same national livestock conference.  You spent much of the time ill and asleep while they were chatting. 

Due to a terrible storm your train was held up at Wichita and 5 of you in that car (another couple, Mr. & Mrs. Bordeaux) were all sent to the Eaton for the night (2 rabbits stayed on the train). 

Mr. Scotch and Mr. Cabernet helped get you safely to your room (still very ill).  You don’t wake until shortly after 2pm (you needed that rest!) and find a note from your husband explaining that he “has gone helping folks for day make it through the storm and he would hopefully be back in evening”.  An hour later you get the note from the hotel about meeting tonight.  Thinking of the horrible storm, you begin to miss and get worried about your husband.

Advice

You probably would like to find out who else is not back from going out in the storm – it might make you feel better about not having your husband there with you to help you get along with all of these strange new faces.  You should probably speak with those you have met before (the train folks, manager), too.

Try to make the most of the nice evening.