and so I really ought to familiarize myself in advance with the general environs and required behaviors in such establishments.
Secondly, Raymond was an IT expert—allegedly—and I needed some advice.
Such advice might be expensive to obtain via official channels, but I could ask him tonight, for free.
All things considered, it seemed expeditious to accede to Raymond’s request.
He was staring into the middle distance, and I noticed that he had lit a cigarette and smoked almost half of it while I had been pondering.
“Yes, Raymond. I will go to the pub with you for one drink,” I said, nodding. “Magic,” he said.
We ended up in a bar five minutes from the hospital, on a busy road. One of the tables outside was unoccupied.
The metal surface was covered in circular stains and its legs looked unstable, but Raymond seemed delighted.
“Seats outside!” he said, happily throwing himself down and hanging his jacket over the back of his chair.
“Right then, I’ll go to the bar,” he said. “What are you after, Eleanor?”
I felt a fluttering of concern in my stomach. Firstly, sitting out here,
I wouldn’t get to see the inside of the public house and observe what went on there.
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