“... is dying and you talk about discos.’ ‘It’s all right,’ said Midgley. ‘Here, go get your self a coffee,’ said Hartley, giving him a pound. Aunty Kitty looked away. Hartley and his family were going. They were congregated outside the lift. ‘You’ll wait, I expect,’ said Hartley. ‘Oh yes,’ said Midgley. ‘I want to be here.’ ‘You want ...”

“... from the government to the afflicted banks. (‘Afflicted’ probably isn’t the right word. ‘Self-afflicted’?) The government’s money has been given in return for various different kinds of shareholding and stake, involving distinctions between ‘ordinary’ and ‘preference’ shares, exquisitely boring distinctions which I don’t propose to ...”