A dinner table can ruin a man faster than a battlefield if the aunt is prepared. by Jane Austen

Jane, an aunt at dinner can destroy a man with better economy than an army.

Oscar, society trained women to smile while carrying artillery in a sentence.

A prepared aunt is only a suspect if the teapot survives.

Agatha, every teapot in polite society knows too much.

Dinner is where vanity arrives dressed as manners and leaves needing a doctor.

Or a confession.

At this point, the silence has better evidence.

Everyone here is allergic to being normal about a simple point.

A battlefield is loud. A dinner table ruins reputations at conversational volume.