[She should have, yes. But he won't fault her for it. He's generous like that. He gives the room a little glance-over before looking back at her.]

This isn't my definition at all. I don't even think it's a synonym. My definition of party usually winds up involving some sort of international property rights dispute.

[Or, you know. Something like that.]

Granted I guess there's enough authorities here to make a pretty good go of things. You draw the short straw? I'd have thought you had the ranking to dupe some poor junior agent into this particular atten-dance party.