Chapter 5

I sighed. “The one with the fringing?”

Very deliberately, Arthur reached over and took back the bottle.

I no longer needed vodka; I was drunk on my sense of purpose. “You need a solicitor. An old, established firm—no, on second thoughts, make it a multi-national. Arethere any multi-national firms of solicitors? There must be. Make it an old, established, multi-national, then. Wait a minute.” I Googled quickly on my phone, tapping in big law firms. Actually, I tapped in big large dicks, at the first attempt; auto-correct knows me far too well. “Here we are,” I said at last, and frowned. “You’d better not have finished that.”

Arthur squinted at the vodka bottle. “There’s still the wine. And the people who work at the garage down the road are very understanding. What have you found?”

“Mortar and Slay. And Spinkmaters. We could go with both of them. Belt and braces, that’s what I always say. The old two-condom trick, although somewhat safer in practice.”