Violet, the fourth at their table, said demurely that she wouldn’t have another Coke. ‘They give me wind,’ she explained. ‘Oh Violet!’ Ruby’s sense of the proprieties was outraged. ‘How can you say such a thing!’ ‘Well, anyway, they do,’ said Violet obstinately. ‘They make me hiccup. No harm in saying that, is there?’ Good old Manchester, thought Bond.
