"1 in 4 is fair odds, I suppose," the Englishwoman said as she took out a few dollars to pay for her purchases. "I actually don't gamble for money, either. I don't care for the type of people who spend their time in casinos."

She could have said something else about how there were more dangerous things to gamble with, like one's life, but that would have been too much information. She was going to have to work on this business of maintaining her cover. At least in front of anyone who wasn't a recalcitrant Slayer.

"I take it you're not headed up the road for the glitz and glamour, then?"