The Gilded Age Recap: The Return of Hector

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And we’re off to the races. I need catty asides in my period dramas, and this need can best be served at a gathering. In our premiere, everyone was too separated. Now they’re all crashing into one another, and I am a fan. Loose meteorites, the lot of them!! The more crashes we get, the more collateral damage, which in this case will be something like, “Mrs. Astor has uninvited me from next month’s charity bazaar in aid of lightly injured polo ponies.” *horrified gasps*

Gladys has run off...