"I will take your word for that." Paul Smecker and families, ha, ha, ha.

A shrug, another drag on his cigarette. Whatever else, the Black Friar doesn't seem to have any injunctions against indoor smoking, which Paul is exploiting for all it's worth.

"Like I said, whatever rocks your rowboat. Me, I'd be screaming for them to let back near a coffee machine within the first half-hour. Why do you want to be out there?"