Alexander nodded. Luckily, a sense of what behaviour was proper was one of the things that he and his wife agreed on, and neither of them thought that public drunkenness was something to be proud of. Unlike a fair proportion of St Mungo's patients, apparently.
"I sometimes wonder how these people were brought up, if they think that suck things are a good joke to lark about later on. I'm sure the patients with genuinely mistaken or accidental cases are annoyed when they have to wait their turn behind someone who's inflicted it all on themselves because they can't control their drunken antics."