Sylvie, like her real-life counterparts, is the mistress of the gesture: a dismissive shrug, emphasised by the coats she slings over her shoulder, deliberately swaying hips as her pencil-skirted figure departs down the panelled suite of rooms in her office, and ā importantly ā a controlled expression that never reveals her intention.
At 57, Ms Leroy-Beaulieu looks fantastic ā and in some ways, she's the real star of the show.
High Street classic: Casual but chic in a Topshop silk green wrap dress, Ā£39, with a statement Les Merveilles de Babellou vintage necklace Sylvie Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu is a terrific foil to Emily, although they're admittedly both pretty frightful: Emily, a Chicago millennial with a teeth-gratingly can-do lack of irony or nuance; Sylvie with her froideur, and manipulative, undermining outlook.