“Breakfast alone by gaslight is about as ghastly as champagne in daylight.”

“I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.”

“What the hell's wrong with mimosas?' Aphrodite was saying. 'Orange juice is for breakfast.''What about the champagne part? That's alcohol,' Stevie Rae said.'It's pink Veuve Clicquot. That means its good champagne, which cancels out the alcohol part,”

“(Broad daylight; breakfast; return of cheerfulness and bons sens; Plato blushes for shame; all free spirits run riot.)”

“Further communication with her husband seemed hopeless. Between them yawned the chasm that divides those who have consumed champagne before breakfast from those who have not.”

“There was a terribly ghastly silence.There was a terribly ghastly noise.There was a terribly ghastly silence.”