Half an hour. I'll hold you to it; ten minutes later and I'm starting again without you.
[With Heloise's body as a bulwark, even in a crowded tavern it's easy to keep a seat clear, and Bill switches to small beer so that Bond won't have a long stern chase--and so he'll be sober enough to ask all the right questions, because he's wild to find out what Bond has been up to and what went wrong. The man's obviously seen some excitement; you don't get slings and bandages from a lazy Sunday in bed.]
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[With Heloise's body as a bulwark, even in a crowded tavern it's easy to keep a seat clear, and Bill switches to small beer so that Bond won't have a long stern chase--and so he'll be sober enough to ask all the right questions, because he's wild to find out what Bond has been up to and what went wrong. The man's obviously seen some excitement; you don't get slings and bandages from a lazy Sunday in bed.]