It was a case of out of the frying pan into the fire: she divorced her husband, who was an alcoholic, and then married another man with the same problem.
" What are you doing there? " he said to the tippler, whom he found settled down in silence before a collection of empty bottles and also a collection of full bottles.
Of course, what's going on in the brain of a social drinker versus that of an alcoholic are completely different, but the two may run into this same issue... just at drastically different degrees.
Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard who wouldn't love to stagger into the streets, three sheets to the wind.