Everyone was in a dither; either in it or about to get in it or just climbing out of it. Naturally, the Madam was not in a dither. Dither was a foreign concept to her.
But sometimes we’d rather take more time and make a more elaborate hot drink, one such as coffolate, which “hits the spot” as almost every man, woman or child who drinks it will at once remark. Coffolate usually is made with coffee and chocolate, as the name suggests, but this particular recipe uses coffee and cocoa.
The primary complaint leveled against financialization of economies is that much of this activity is geared towards rent seeking.
So Wang and Tiger’s men rushed into such houses as were not too ablaze and they began to drag out booty of silken pieces and yards of cloth and garments and anything they could carry.