"My mother threw awful parties that I tolerated," Peggy admits, given that they were sad and stilted and no one ever truly had fun so much as sat there and acted polite in the ways that everyone was expected to act, even though it was hardly any entertainment at all.

"I take it that means that no one else has received any records, then?" She's still curious why she had been so lucky as to get one herself, but even she finds herself too maudlin to use it much of the time, given that it just reminds her of a dance that never happened.