I would feel better to do something when you are going to give us such a perfectly lovely supper.

Lovely supper guests, but not terribly interested in physics and my scientific mumbo jumbo. Albert pauses, his cup hovering near his lips.

'It was a lovely supper.

"But, darling, you've had your lovely supper."

"We have a lovely supper and we cooked most of it ourselves, and we brought a whole hamper full."