Canapés (2)

Snatch of conversation over the canapés as over-heard by the flying doc on the wall and his partner, as the Robo butler continues to swat bon viveurs:

Sheikh: Salem, where is your lovely wife ce soir – don’t tell me she is otherwise engaged?

Shazam (Pointedly ignoring the Sheikh, and turning to the Senator’s wife): Dorothy, I should try the duck pate if I were you. It’s rather good.

Senator Carson’s wife: Thank you, I have to watch my lines.

Sheikh: Dear girl, someone of your stature need never worry about her lines. – Indeed, she is always welcome in my harem.

Shazam: Senator Carson, apropos the project we have in mind, my accountant is somewhere in the vicinity.

Sheikh: Ah, must be the little chap ogling my girls.

Doc (Off): Hell, I just knew it! Manfredi is carrying out a feasibility study…

Kola (Off): For the Mercedes Bends?

Doc (Off): No, I believe they are planning to use the Bends in the ad campaign, though, along with the Delaneys.