Robin and Toba talk back and forth for a moment, chatting about styles and which fabrics are what. She has a couple of opinions about what's fashionable these days, and Robin casually asks about the morning's business, to which she begins to tell him all about a couple of strange people who came by looking for a coat for some party they were going to, and...

All of it is Robin trying to establish a comfortable tone in the room. After a few minutes (Toba has, by now, leaned back against one of those shelves to recount an earlier argument she'd had with a glass-blower down the street), Robin turns back to Phalanx to get their attention again.

"Hey, Phalanx. Can you come over here for a moment?"