Difficult to explain really but it was a very large room with not much in the way of soft furnishings and lots of tables with people talking openly. My wife wasn't speaking any louder than anyone else and there were others, i noticed talking on mobile phones. The "lady" complaining seemed also to think it was "bad manners" talking on a phone whilst eating breakfast. Well as she wasn't sitting at my table and i was not sitting at hers, i didn't really think she had a point.
...fine pair of lads in your picture.