 Why does Gabe travel to seedy places?
"You must allow me to pay your cleaning bill," Gabe said, taking out his wallet and extracting several credit notes without seeming to look at them. There he inserted a coin in a locker, into which he put most of his personal possessions, reserving only a sum of money. Each time it happens, there's a ... well, there's no experience to match it at a thrill-mill." Gabe Lockard was in no condition to drive the helicar. To the girl's indignation, the stranger not only hauled Gabe out onto the dripping grass first, but stopped and deliberately examined the young man by the light of his minilume, almost as if she weren't there at all.
 he thinks he can escape from his "bodyguard"
 so he can play more zarquil  he thinks he can escape from his "bodyguard"  it's what his wife is comfortable with  it's the only places he can afford