It was a pitchy black night, as stifling as a June night can be, and the loo, the red-hot wind from the westward, was booming among the tinder-dry trees and pretending that the rain was on its heels.
{i} toilet (British usage) ; love (Scottish usage); card game in which forfeits are placed into a central pool; forfeits placed in the central pool (in card games)
An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack