A Night to Remember

Act 1 Scene 5:

It was finally the night of an extravagant dinner party that I had planned! The servingmen were running all over the place trying to get things done. Poor things! They did an excellent job though and I was quite pleased with them. Anyway, I arrived with my wife, the lovely Lady Capulet, my beloved daughter, Juliet, and my hot headed nephew, Tybalt. I had quite a strategy to get all of the women off of their feet and dancing. I practically told them that if they did not have corns on their feet, then they would be dancing along with all of the fine gentleman. Haha yes I know it was brilliant. It was fun too because if any of the women did not dance, we could all say that she had corns on her toes. I also got the gentlemen off of their feet by telling them to enjoy their time being young and charming with the ladies now because before they knew it, it would be gone. Just as my time has gone. I continued to tell the musicians to play their music and continued to put my servingman to work so that the party would be the best party all of my good friends had ever been to. While everyone was enjoying themselves, I had a seat with my cousin and talked to him about the last time he wore a mask to a party like the one I was having. He told me that it was thirty years ago but I reassured him that it was only twenty-five years...not that that was much better. Apparently I was wrong though because the last time we danced and wore masks was at Lucentio's wedding, which was thirty years ago. O well I guess. Later on that night I saw my daughter Juliet with Paris. It seemed she was growing fond of him, but what do I know? I am just an old man. I did see another young man staring at her though. I do not know his name, but who knows? I thought to myself he might end up winning Juliet's attention instead of Paris. The young man stood gazing at her as if he was infatuated with her. Haha silly children. They swear they know the meaning of love when they really don't. Then I saw Tybalt suddenly get very angry and I asked him what the cause of his temper was. He told me he had spotted the Montague, Romeo. I told him to just leave Romeo alone though because he was doing no harm and he had a respectable name around Verona. I also told him to turn his frown upside down because acting violently is not the way to behave at a dinner party. I could just tell poor Tybalt still wanted to hurt Romeo though. So I told him to tolerate it because if he did not, then there would be a riot at the party and I definitely did not want that to happen in my house. Tybalt should have been ashamed of himself just for even having the thought of starting such a raucous in my home. He left my presence after the discussion we had. Later on I focused my attention on the party and noticed that Juliet was missing, but I just thought to myself that maybe she met someone and was alone with him. She is a good girl so I trusted she had good judgment in the men she chose to be around. I also knew my wife had the Nurse looking for her anyway so I knew she would be found soon. Later on I saw the young man that was gazing at Juliet earlier, attempting to leave the party along with some friends of his. I tried to get them to stay but they left anyway. It was getting late though so I decided to call it a night as well. Before I went to sleep, I saw the Nurse and Juliet talking and it seemed to me that they were talking about some of the young men that came to the party. I do not know if she found someone she liked for sure but if she did, at least she chose the man on her own instead of him being chosen for her.