Defiance
He drank in front of me, fully knowing that I was concerned over his alcohol consumption and that I had suggested that he should be abstinent. Interestingly, I think it was his wife who put him up to it. She didn’t like the prospect of being married to someone who might be labelled (by himself rather than by me) “alcoholic” and she was determined to prove (through her own personal logic) that it wasn’t true.