Two women are talking in a tea room at four o'clock, over large gooey ice-cream sundaes and little sugary cakes. They have not seen each other since high-school days, and one is bragging about her very advantageous marriage.
"My husband buys me whole new sets of diamonds when the ones I have get dirty," she says. "I never even bother to clean them."
"Fantastic!" says the other women.
"Yes," says the first, "we get a new car every two months. None of this hire-purchase stuff! My husband buys them outright, and we give them to the Negro gardener and houseman and like that for presents."
"Fantastic!" says the other.
"And our house," pursues the first, "well, what's the use of talking about it? It's just...."
"Fantastic!" finishes the other.
"Yes, and tell me, what are you doing nowadays?" says the first woman.
"I go to Charm School," says the other.
"Charm School? Why, how quaint! What do you learn there?"
"Well, we learn to say 'Fantastic' instead of 'Bullshit'!" 
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