C4 antho - Chamber Four

The Next Thing on Benefit ~233~
shooed the waiters off and followed them to the elevator and
out.
“Who’s Patrick?” Sharon asked Duncan Munro.
“Patrick’s an Etonian,” said Munro.
“What’s an Etonian?”
“A good thing to be, where Patrick comes from,” said
Munro.
“Are you one?” Sharon asked him.
“I might have been,” said Munro. “But Patrick’s the real
thing. Patrick is a man of many talents.”
“He’s like the concierge?”
“The concierge?”
“Yeah. He works for the hotel, doesn’t he?” asked
Sharon.
“No,” said Munro. “Not for the hotel.”
They began on their dinner. Munro wore a robe, and
Sharon sat opposite him in sweatpants and her FDNY Tshirt.
She expected Munro to drink a lot, but he barely tasted
the wine. Sharon drank most of it herself. Probably that was
part of the thing, long after dinner, of her finding herself
with Duncan Munro in the suite’s shower. They stood in each
other’s arms under the warm water.
“I think I’ve had too much champagne,” said Sharon.
“Don’t be silly,” said Munro. “You can’t have too much
champagne. It’s good for you.”
“It is?”
“Well, at any rate,” said Munro, “it’s good for me.”
“But you haven’t had any.”
“But you have.”