The way Lumiere was stuttering made Mrs. Potts frown at him. What on earth was making him so nervous and surprised? She looked at him in confusion. He couldn't have forgotten her somehow?

"I've met her already!" she answered and had she been human her hands would have been on her hips. The teapot fixed Lumiere with a pointed look then. "Did you forget the dinner we all prepared for her, even though the Master told us not to? She did seem so delighted by the performance."

What did this all mean?