Well, you'll have to endure my housemates - imagine, me, a grown man, subjected to housemates!

[ And yet there's not even another word of spending the coin. Not a hesitation before Byerly starts setting off to where the poor downtrodden refugees have their housing. He will demonstrate to Dorian how altogether unashamed he is of being seen with him, damn it all. ]

Though they're charming in their way. There's Anora - imperious as anything, that one, I think one of these days she'll slap me across my face. And Max, who is charming, she has the loveliest eyes, but again, ferocious as a winter storm. And Prior. Have you met Prior? He's a wonderful fellow.