The senior male royalty enumerated the tokens representing the legally established negotiable commodity, while occupying a shelter designated for just that purpose. The senior female royalty was in that room of the residence set apart for the entertainment of visitors, ingesting a starchy, grain-ridden foodstuff, topped with a certain amount of a yellowish, viscid fluid utilized as an edible nutrient by some species of insects. Simultaneously, a certain previously noted female servant stood within the confines of a small agricultural plot set aside for the cultivation of flowers, fruit, and/or vegetables, busied herself with suspending (for the purpose of allowing the attendant atmospheric currents to evaporatively remove the liquid solvent used in the cleansing for further use of such garments, and which liquid yet clung to the fabric) various articles of apparel from a cord whose reason for existence is, by definition, just that. While said female servant was engaged in this pursuit, one of the aforementioned ebony-hued grackles descended upon her from above, and, presumably with a single, swift bite, amputated the external portion of her olfactory organ.