Asper Argo, the Well-Beloved, Commdor of the Korellian Republic greeted his wife’s entry by a hangdog lowering of his scanty eyebrows. To her at least, his self-adopted epithet did not apply. Even he knew that.

The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.

I know them well, and mark'd their rude comport.

Dawn and the others, much like ants, are oblivious to reality and live in the miniscule world of Buffydom (the kingdom of the Slayer), just as we might find ourselves marching like ants through our own lives in mindless routine.