"That's the beauty of it, my dear, you don't have to choose. Think of a party as window shopping, a little cobweb of a dream, nothing more. How would I look with that draped around my shoulders? Is it too form fitting? Too loose? Does it come in my favorite color?" Letting Karen in on another secret, "It is what they're all thinking in their various ways, just a game that some play for fun and others quite seriously, looking for ways to get ahead. Everyone wants something and right now some of them want to know who you are and what we're talking about that makes us laugh as we survey what is on offer. Are we talking about them? Admiring them? A thought that makes them stand taller, straightening shoulders? Or are we mocking their enemies. They are the stars of their own movies, the camera always on them, showing the world from their point of view." Lips quirk, another smile in the wings, "We are only co-stars from their perspective, while in actuality we are the protagonists in our own movies."