"You had been the one complaining of my splurging on expensive frivolities. It would be far too cruel to subject you to the horrors of such expenditures by allowing you to even sample a drop." That and he doubted she was of legal age. Normally he wouldn't mind bending that rule as much, having drank alcohol at a young age himself at various parties, however Anise's little attitude a few moments prior ruined any chance of him doing that.