- Oldenshaw: The origins of that report, if it ever found its way to the French authorities, there'd be the devil of a bust up. Our friends would want to know why we're spying on them.
- Dimmock: Very touchy of them; everybody does it.
- Oldenshaw: Oh yes, it's done, but unlike justice it must not be seen to be done.
- Dimmock: The advertising space on the front page is available every day for the next week with the notable exception of the day after tomorrow.
- Oldenshaw: Ah. Did he say what the normal run of the paper was, and when it was put to bed?
- Dimmock: Oh "run", "when it was put to bed", I didn't know you were conversant with the journalistic idiom?
- Oldenshaw: My youth was misspent in various ways.