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It is almost Christmas. Miss Kate and Miss Julia are giving their annual ball. One by one the guests appear, there is dancing, eating (fat brown goose, marinated rib eye, pudding), there is apprehension about Freddy Malins who is bound to reappear drunk, and Gabriel gives a short table speech as usual.

Gabriel fears his speech will be too pompous. He is concerned about his wife Gretta's health and jealous when she listens with too much attention to the tenor Bartel ...