The Bet
Patrick deliberately made her drink it, as he wanted her to be more talkative.
He was really desperate to hear the full, and above all, the true story about his mother, not the one he had heard from her younger sister, Jo's mother, or his father and uncle. For all of them, she was a flawless figure, a perfect person with impeccable character, who could only be talked about in superlatives.
After years of working with Nick, he knew that something like a ‘perfect’ person didn’t exist. The more ideal someone seems to be, the more secrets they hide behind layers of facades. The perfection was often just some kind of camouflage.