Temple tells Ruby that she and Gowan "stopped at that little country store" somewhere between the train station in Taylor and the town of Dumfries (55). Gowan buys a shirt there, the "cheap blue workshirt" he wears "beneath his dinner jacket" (37), and also apparently finds the means to "get drunk again" (55).
In Sanctuary Temple Drake tells Ruby Lamar that she and Gowan "stopped at that little country store" somewhere between the train station in Taylor and the town of Dumfries (55). Gowan buys a shirt there, the "cheap blue workshirt" he wears "beneath his dinner jacket" (37), and also apparently finds the means to "get drunk again" (55).
