"Come on, then, and let's have some! I want another piece of cake and more ice cream, anyway."

She waves Elle over to the refreshment table.

"There's chocolate, strawberry, and pistachio. You can have just one kind or scoops of all three!"

Then she changes her tone into a much more mannerly one. "May I get you something to drink, since you are my guest? We have punch and cold water."