Lady Eleanor, know to all her friends as Nellie, was invited to the annual Queen Charlotte’s ball where all well bred ladies 'came out' before going onto Uni or the Grand tour of Europe before settling down. She had been accepted into Girton college Cambridge, and while there was courted by a baronet Augustus Devere-Smythe. He promised her everything should she marry him and went so far to even promise her a boat he had moored on the cam.
She readily agreed and he took her to the placed where he kept it, and to her horror realised it was a flat bottomed dinghy type thing that the other students used to pole up and down the River Cam. Outraged, she ran to the boat house took out a massive axe and completely wrecked it, telling him at the same time his was a fraud and the romance is over

Which gave rise to the first line of a famous song


Nellie the debutante hacked her punt and said goodbye to her Sir Gus

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