“Gentleponies, please, if you would all be so kind as to give me a chance to speak?” Jacques said, trying to get the chattering down to a dull roar. “Now, I know we’ve had all our disagreements before, like a certain mare I see over there in the corner who still hasn’t forgiven me regarding the incident with burnt eyebrows.” He got a round of laughter out of that. “Hmhm, my apologies once more, chére, you know it was an accident.”