She only wore that dress to upstage everyone.

(editors note after a letter by Thomas Ratcliffe re cubbardy) Cupboardy is recorded in the 'NED' as a nonce-word, with a quotation from Miss Braddon.

[S]end me that hag hither; she shall avouch what it was that she hath given to the wretch Dryfesdale, or the pilniewinks and thumbikins shall wrench it out of her finger-joints.

It is worth noting here that from the ratification of the Treaties up to the earlier seventies the Japanese Government, upon the facts of an outrage or misproceeding of any kind being clearly explained to them — a process often requiring much time and patience,— almost invariably acted with justice and decision.