“I’m used to a lot of things, trust me.” He smiles down at his glass. “I’d like that, though. Having dinner.”

As for the wine— “At first necessity, then fascination. When I started working a richer circuit, I needed to at least be able to pretend I knew what I was talking about when they busted out their prestige bottles and preened over things in their collections. I brushed up on the basics, learned how to bluff my way through those kinds of conversations, but the more I bluffed the more I actually learned, and the more I learned the more interesting it was.”