"Was supposed to go to this funeral with Days. Plan was we get medicated," pointing this out for Eddie's edification "you can never last through those things, all those handshakes" emphasizing the word on its first syllable - /hand/, flickflicking an ash down by her knee, somewhere in the dark between the bar and Hiro's thigh "but she never came to get me so I figured," talking mostly to Hiro's orbiting head "why not stay? Chin chin old chap" annunciating tight-lipped in a laughable east-ender accent, Penny snatches a shot and knocks it down.