We smile, for instance, when some interlocutor in a dialogue of Plato takes a line from the Iliad and applies it seriously au pied de la lettre.

'I won't say that,' replied the other cautiously, still eyeing his interlocutor with surprised glances.

We stared at each other in silence for ten seconds, each wishing himself or his interlocutor at the antipodes.

It is, however, well to show that you remember the station of your interlocutor by now and then introducing some such phrase as"I think I have already mentioned to your Grace"or, "I believe, Madam, you were observing" A peer or baron may occasionally, as in an address, be styled "My Lord," but a lady of equal rank must only be addressed as "Madam.

It was the sort of costume affected by interlocutors of minstrel shows; it had a minstrel trigness about it.