She can't keep from grinning, though it takes an act of will not to remind him this is hardly their first date. Between the send off dinner she had the night before her parents died, and the trip to Manchester. (She won't count that horribly awkward moment with the champagne in her flat, counting down the New Year with him and sealing it with a kiss.)

Trust Ray to ruin the moment.

"Guv, reports something kicking off at a shebeen in Dalston."