Here the crowd swells to loaves-and-fishes dimensions; it appears to continue to the horizon itself, with the usual doffing of hats and tossing of canes accompanying the Violently Ordinary Rejoinder.

The artist’s playful sense of time is in clear display: the conversation depicted takes no more that 30 seconds, but in that mere half-minute a crowd of several thousand assembles. She really heads for orbit, too. So far we have a PLOP, and OOP, and an EEK; if we get an AH-AH we have an Elroy Jetson lyric.