"Rather a decent scotch," she admits, but she has the same moral obligations as John not to raid Eliot's flat for something better, and it's obvious in her tone. "Suppose it'll work for now," she adds, "but you owe me something stronger for that scare."

It isn't as though she'd been clutching her pearls like an old woman, but she does want to drive the point home to John: don't be an idiot. Let her do her job.