It was poker night. Five yuppies crammed round a table in a room at the back of a south London semi. Tumblers and water were on the table.
Conventions had developed. The host cooked the food (or so he said) and the four guests each brought a bottle of whisky. The guests rotated between four ‘stations’.
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