As a style, a bit more practical, less fussy: those frilled shirt cuffs are hell for whoever's doing your laundry.

[More clanking around yet, then -] Aha! Someone thought ahead. [He'll come up from behind the bar with a bottle of greenish liqueur, lighter in color than most absinthe would be.] Someone stocked Pernod: it might lack the wormwood, but it's still close enough. A more legal version of the green faery.

[Opens the bottle, fills one glass, makes a move to fill another.] Care for a glass?

I don't think I've had the honour to meet the personage in question, but I hope I'd made an impression, favourable or otherwise. [A smirk, as if to say 'any reaction is a favourable reaction.]