[ Oh, Mr Dragon, sir, about those extra pounds. That terrible, most literal largesse.

...well, something about them - something Lir will be sure to address, some other time, when he's not holding his head very high and his stand very pointlessly firm. ]

Have you been oppressing men? And women? And children? Have you burned down homes and ruined fortunes? Do you bed on stolen coin?

[ There is, after all, a mental checklist for these offences. ]