I'm interested in whatever you have to say, of course!

[if he was planning on drinking, he'd likely become more honest as time went on, but he could also get more sensitive to insults and walk out if she waited until then to spring the attack questions on him... better to bring out the hard-ball stuff right away]

My first question is in regard to an anonymous shipmate of yours I happened to have the fortune of meeting the other day, he said you are...

[she flipped a notepad]

A, quote "shitty deadbeat," and implied indirectly that was the reason you were unemployed, as they say.

Do you have anything to you wish to say in reply?