- Eddi ignored that. “Why didn’t you say something this morning? We could have had it at breakfast.”
- He looked embarrassed. “Yes, well, that was my treat, you see. And I don’t know how to make coffee.”
- “You can make pancakes, and not coffee?”
- “Pancakes, my inquisitive flower, are a profoundly primitive and practically universal item, in one form or another.”
- “So’s coffee,” said Carla.
- “Not,” the phouka said disdainfully, “where I come from.”
