"It did one good, on entering the Queen's Hall last night, to find every seat in the building, even to those at the back of the rostrum, occupied by the London Symphony Orchestra."
—Evening Paper.
An audience is often so distracting.
Fortune-Teller (to client). "A dark man has been hovering about your path for the last month."
Client. "Oh, that must be the agent who's been worrying me to insure my life."