Possible Clues:

• Board along the bottom of a wall
• Board at base of wall
• Avoiding the issue, or trying to
• Close to belligerent in risking trouble by avoiding the issue
• Smuggled in by con, drink for passing round
• Material around walls of room?
• Drink absorbed in smart fabric
• Getting around it for the girls?
• Going around in a feminine sort of way
• At the bottom of the wall to make something for her to wear