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it’s only lawyers, you know, who think that contracts are things you can get out of.
It’s more or less exactly what happened with Van Meegeren. With whom, indeed, the point has now been reached at which people are forging Van Meegeren forgeries.’
On account of the bread strike it was the time, as my readers may remember, when the exchange of recipes for baking at home had displaced the economy as the chief topic of light conversation.
‘From your statement, Hilary,’ said Ragwort, at five minutes past, ‘that nothing would happen before eleven, we have been assuming that something would happen after that time. You are now going, I suppose, to explain to us the fallacy in our reasoning.’
