Éponine . . . had a lot more alcohol stashed away at home than she tended to drink these days, but hoarding it was a bit of a habit she didn't feel like breaking.

But she might as well do something with it, shouldn't she? And the party had been amusing last year. And giving things to people without asking money for them was supposed to be a decent thing to do.

So she had several bottles of liquor in a bag -- all right, so the Kahlua bottle had been opened and she'd had about a third of it, but were people really going to care?