Manners should never be forgotten, even when people don't think they apply they almost certainly do. Like dreams. People wandering in without knocking, it's rude. Are you a middler or a closer or an opener, Wolf, even if you're not a librarian? What job did you take?
Which woman? Oh, no. No escorts needed, none, please. It's just [...] I need to do more writing before I can go anywhere and nothing will behave itself and I just thought if I had the right tea, maybe everything else would fall into line. But if I don't, if I write something and I don't go out, perhaps that might work instead.