"Commandant, if you please. Elder Hargrove is head of the lodge. He would be not pleased to see me give myself THAT promotion!"
A roaring laughter erupts from the rest of the guests.
"Ladies, Gentlemen, we are here to do honor to a group that has done a great service to our city of Port Shaw by ridding us of a scourge that has been plaguing us of late of smugglers of most foul drugs that have been contaminating our youth and our workers. A toast to them. Let us give them a hearty thank-you and welcome to our fair city.
Among those at the table are the Viscount Senegar Deepwarder and his niece, the Tolcrists, the Sidrows, the Duhamels, and the Stansports. All scions of many of the finest families in Port Shaw.