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Fran . `` It 's impossible to tell whether it 's the butler or paterfamilias . Yes , it 's the butler , for he has taken off his coat and is looking at the flowers with the florist 's assistant . '' B.G. `` And the florist 's assistant is getting slated like one o'clock ! The butler does n't like the rum design over the piano ; no more do I. Whatever is the matter with them now ? '' They were standing with their faces towards us , gesticulating wildly about something on the front wall of the drawing-room ; a place quite hidden from our view . They could not decide the matter , although the butler intimated that it would quite ruin the ball , while the assistant mopped his brow and threw all the blame on somebody else .