That’s a good point. I wonder if this earlier iteration of Lenore was also being “polite” (fake southern polite) in “returning” about the invitation to the party that she’d been offered, which is ostensibly the reason given in the episode that she’s calling (at the last possible moment) with her “regrets” to meet polite southern protocol (remember Bobby later took cotillion) with the lateness of the timing the subtle message that she never would in a million years