coffee, a P thing. A use I bet you haven't heard

[Mark Kohut]

So I was browsing in a good bookstore and picked up a new biography
of Jonathon Swift, solid, classy university press book I did not know of
and I open it and start reading. 
 
It begins with a story from a love affair Swift was having, an English society woman
who was head over everything in love enough to follow him back to Ireland, his 
homeland. They had to meet in secret at a sympatheitc co-conspirator's house; they
exchanged notes in Fill-in-the-Blanks and their own coded words.   
 
"Coffee' sez the author was an oft-used code word as in one note: "I would simply love
to walk around the gardens with you and take in your coffee". (Other suggestive uses
show more than aroma was meant). 
 
Ah, the smell of love....
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