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‘One point four per cent in favour of the House at craps, five per cent at blackjack’ – he looked down at Bond. ‘Except at your game, you crook! – five and a half per cent at roulette. Up to seventeen per cent at bingo and the wheel of fortune, and fifteen to twenty per cent at the slots. Not bad for the House, hn? Every year eleven million customers play Mr Spang and his friends at those odds. Take two hundred dollars as an average sucker’s capital, and you can work out for yourself how much stays in Vegas over a year’s play.’
It’ll be one-twenty in the shade out there. Only there isn’t any shade.’
is an intoxicating moment in a love affair when, for the first time, in a public place, in a restaurant or a theatre, the man puts his hand down and lays it on the thigh of the girl and when she slips her hand over his and presses the man’s hand against her. The two gestures say everything that can be said. All is agreed. All the pacts are signed. And there is a long minute of silence during which the blood sings.
