(The association women look their way and Claude gives them a smile. Hello, ladies, it's so nice to see you. Is everything okay? Everything is fine here!!!

And he turns his attention righ tback at Amanda,)

Something like that. (Elbows on the table, leaning slightly. He's pretty relaxed about this whole situation,) I guess you could say... my grandfather's a pretty important person. He gets invited to all sorts of things but since he's been getting up there in years, I've been going with him.

(And yet, he doesn't really elaborate!)

It's a whole lot of stuffy guys in stuffy places if you know what I mean...

(The older generation doing the things the older generation are accustomed to doing.)