"Then we need to buy swimsuits, which means I need to change the chips, which means we have to leave the loo. Talk about tempting."

He's beaming like somebody who just got thoroughly kissed when they leave, and can't keep that expression off his face as he changes his chips for a cashier's check.

Check-in is easy: the reservation was under the name Jack Green, which somehow made the clerks treat them like royalty--Jack had said, shrugging, that things always worked out for him and apparently the same was true for his friends--and once they were in the elevator Charlie pulled Darien back to him for more kisses.