Before the children were born, when Liz was working as a buyer, she used to attend a great many cocktail parties. These were the days when Ben was at law school, so they used to dine rather completely on hor d'oeuvres and restrain themselves with difficulty from wrapping some up in a paper napkin to take home. Since then, they haven't exactly made a habit of cocktail parties. The other day though, one of Ben's associates at the office had a party to celebrate his acquisition of a new wife, so naturally they had to go along...