The assembled ladies and gentlemen of the Court:

Beautiful dress, my dear. No I mean it - I remember liking that style myself when it was all the rage... I tell you that's his mother's wig he's wearing... yes, I know, it's scandalous, but then their credit is no good. You didn't know? My dear, they're practically bankrupt. I thought I'd told everybody... ... I'm having another jewelery box box made for all my boxes of jewelery... oh look here, that dreadful Concuspidor is about to make another spectacle of himself. He so's terribly public with it all...

At the Court of the King & Queen of Stuff
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