In Good Company

So, it's a fun story with a sweet ending. Millie is a spunky young woman much too prone to have mishaps, and her character is tons of fun to get to know. The peacocks drama is hilarious indeed...

There were a number of things that didn't add up that did distract me. (Mild spoilers)
-Her reading material vs. her vocabulary...a number of the words she had to look up in conversation would have been in common use in that day, but would have been some of the easier terms used in the classics she was reading.
-The children wearing frocks made out of curtains. Um, really? We are never told why Elizabeth decides to sew curtains into frocks. Realistically, the servants would have taken away their regular clothes and instantly slapped them into mourning after the parents' deaths—before the funeral even occurred.
-The idea of having an private swimming-pool built. Sorry, people were already deciding to build private pools in the late 1800s. It was a time of great focus on personal fitness in the upper classes.
-Seeing whales in the bay: in the days of old, whale oil demand greatly diminished the whale population. This wouldn't be likely, much less seeing two in summertime.