The monarchs were getting used to the bustling atmosphere and by third breakfast Aragorn and Arwen were beginning to feel that they could handle them. The king and queen had yet to notice that the little hobbits were only tolerably under influence of food.

Once the thirteen plates have been cleared there was an uneasy silence

"What now?" asked Primrose in her legendary whiney voice.

"I'm off," declared Elanor and bringing her plate to a basin in the cornew straightened out her dress and grabbing a hat moved to the circular door

"To go see Fastred." taunted Merry through a final mouthful of toast.

"You lying twerp!" shrieked the eldest flushed sister, "what I may or may not do with the people that I choose to spend time with as an escape from you people is none of your business you hear? Just because no girl in her right mind would ever take you-"

She was cut off by Merry who shot back, "As a matter of fact I am not wholly unpopular with the hobbit girls, Just because I don't go around showing off with them!"

Rosie rolled her eyes, "It was nighttime behind Bag End if memory serves."

"Aha!" Merry cried in triumph, "so you admit it!"

"Rosie flushed even brighter at her blunder but regained her composer, "and what about these hobbit ladies that you talk about?"

"So unobservant," crooned Merry, "haven't you noticed how all the women scream whenever I draw near?"

"and have you noticed," squeaked Goldilocks, boldly entering the fray, "that they leave very quickly after they finish screaming in disgust."

"They can't believe that a hobbit like me can possibly exist," countered Merry, lamely

"To right they don't," backed up Daisy, "who would believe that such a big headed, arrogant hobbit that's so full of himself could ever walk the earth and not be blasted into oblivion by the Valar!"

A shocked Arwen opened her mouth to tell the children not to lightly use the names of the lords of the west but she was drowned out by the shouts of approval at Daisy's remark

"Well Daisy," said Bilbo slyly, "weren'y you showing off and prancing around playing the goody goody in front of Faramir?"

Daisy went as red of Elanor and said quietly, "Don't be stupid Bilbo, you know that Faramir's got it for Goldilocks."

While all the heads swiveled to watch Goldilock's reaction to this startling news, Aragorn questioned Frodo (Baggins)

"Faramir?"

Frodo looked at his friend and spared him the genealogy lesson, "Faramir Took, Pip's son."