DELICIA - DELIGHT -
"I wish you would not use that horrid cant. A moment ago you said he had been drinking Blue Ruin"
"It's the same thing", grinned Patrick. "You can call it a Flash of Lightning, if you like, or Old Tom. It means gin, my dear". He laughed at her face of disgust, have her a careless embrace, and with a glance at the clock exclaimed that it was after three already, and he must be off. Her only satisfaction was in seeing him drive away with a competent groom up beside him instead of one who would have been more at home in a prize ring.
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