I feel sweaty. If I ever see her again, Lewis, I shall have to tell her that 'rang' is the more correct form of the past tense of the verb 'to ring', when used transitively. Every now and then he takes a sudden distaste to his often arrogant boss, but usually he tolerates Morse's whims with patience. Or, as you'd prefer it, with whom old Felix regularly spent a few felicitous hours. A sort of, you know, pale ring of skin, sort of thing, where the ring had been - before she took it off.
Nothing remarkably distinctive there.
The same one that was later murdered. Brooks's speech is very obviously lower class with all the omitted letters etc. It's just that I can't get off to sleep when I know you're still out. Might just as well a' bin in different rooms all the bloody time, you know that. That's what you are.