“I doubt that,” said Peter, clasping his hands behind his head. “It’s been my experience that nobody can swallow for anybody else. Now if I had given him a whiskey transfusion, there might be some justice in what you say, but I don’t think I did.”
“You know what I mean,” said Harriet.
“I once knew a man,” went on Peter dreamily, “who was shot in the throat during the war and afterward he had to take nourishment through a tube in his side. He would take a highball in his hand and say, ’Here’s luck, boys,’ and pour it down the tube. Now if your husband has a tube in his side, it’s quite conceivable that I might have poured a highball or two down it and in that case I might have got him drunk, especially as you get drunk quicker when you drink through a tube in your side.”
I don’t think that Deiray is faking his personality for Kenny. I believe that he has genuinely changed and is now a better person.