They'll probably have to take out a loan, but given the fact that all of their more respectable connections are to city institutions of one form or another- that shouldn't be much of a problem. (Thinking along these lines, as necessary as it may be, makes his teeth itch; he briefly has the urge to rough up a politician on principle.)

Swallowing, he says over his glass, "How nostalgic of home. I suppose we ought, at that."