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Lost the money, lost the partnership, but I did figure out a way to keep my skin intact.

[He smiles, wryly edged.] So I came closer to getting away with it than I was afraid I would.

I couldn't appreciate the setting properly at the time, but in retrospect it is a classy joint. Particularly when no one's trying to stab me or chain me to pieces of furniture.

[He glances around the room with a faintly proprietary air, and adds, deliberately casual:] The times in my life I've found myself needing to charge, I've never had a professional setting.