" Same hour, same set-up: woman plus tortoise, tortoise plus hibiscus, man plus gin and tonic. "To arm myself against the evening."

She had found it perplexing, a man who feared the evening because he feared the night. "

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" Same hour, same set-up: woman plus tortoise, tortoise plus hibiscus, man plus gin and tonic. "To arm myself against the evening."She had found it perplexing, a man who feared the evening because he feared the night. "