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If the poor don't want it, you can bring it over to me.
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How can we help Edith?
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You can help her by finding her something to do.
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Is this all we're getting? Just the pickety bits?
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Hardly. These are canapes, Alfred.
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For your first course, some truffle egg on toast, perhaps?
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Some oysters a la Russe.
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- Then what? - There's lobster rissoles in mousseline sauce.
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Or calvados-glazed to duckling.
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Or you fancy a little asparagus salad with Champagne saffron vinaigrette.
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When I think how you've gone to such pains...
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Don't mind me. What about the pain of that poor girl upstairs?