Compensation.

Vis-à-vis the previous post:

There was a time when even queens could lose their heads for exhibiting nothing worse than intransigence. And it was at such a time that people like me habitually came to an even more frightful end.

I’m grateful, of course. It goes some way to compensating me for having to tolerate shopping malls and fashion models. The moral seems to be:

‘Make it silly, make it safe.’