“They fall for it, eh?”

“I tell you, they eat it up. Women who would slap your face if you tried to say anything off-colour in private, sit out there right in front of the whole damn dining-room and laugh their heads off at stuff I tell them that’s just as close to the borderline as I can get by with it. What the hell do you want?”

“I wanted to find out something about a woman.”

“Oh, my God!”

“What’s the matter?”

“Getting me up at this hour over a woman. God, I can give you the names and telephone numbers of five hundred of them.”

“You know a lot of them?”

“I know every hustler in town.”

“This may not be a hustler. She has been in the Cabanita recently.”

“What about her?”