"You must promise not to laugh at me," she said trying to look serious, "but I am not much of a drinker. It seems such a quaint thing to admit to these days, but there you have it."
"A policeman? Well, perhaps I shouldn't so easily confess what the family does," Isabel teased him. "No, really, it is boring. Finance, mostly, and now, with the increase in natural disasters, we have branched out into businesses that specialise in cleaning up such areas."