 Having started Burns on his dangerous path, Cynthia spends much of the duration of "The Little Nugget" offstage, on a yachting cruise in the Mediterranean, appearing only via correspondence, and we later only hear from her mother of her growing attachment to Lord Mountry.The mother of Cynthia, Mrs Drassilis is the daughter of a provincial solicitor and widow of the Hon.Hugo Drassilis, younger brother of the Earl of Westbourne, who appears in "The Little Nugget".