Surprised that it's going well so far? What a delightfully interesting thing to say!

"Were you expecting something more?" he prompts, keeping an airy sort of curiosity about himself. No need to go straight for blood yet. "I have been informed there has been discontent. Ms Brown, for example, turned up in a dress considered extremely inappropriate and was asked to change. A second crime, apparently, after the desert she made for a block party failed to set."

A terrible scandal, to be sure, they were all quite amazed she even dared to show her face after that.