Possible Clues:

• Is 'e that secret drinker, Eric?
• Secret - restricted to initiates
• For the initiated, it's broken toes the boy has
• It's a mystery how Eric can have got his toes broken
• Privileged or confidential among coteries
• Difficult to understand, abstruse
• Boy on toes, perhaps, sees secret
• European man supporting drunkard in secret
• Private escort that is organised
• Monarch joining society mostly misrepresented as exclusive