“Yes, Miss Tuppence. Do you want to say how much?” “Not exactly. We’ve got plenty to go on with for the present, but when we want more—” “It will be waiting for you.” “Yes, but—I’m sure I don’t want to be rude about the Government if you’ve got anything to do with it, but you know one really has the devil of a time getting anything out of it! And if we have to fill up a blue form and send it in, and then, after three months, they send us a green one, and so on—well, that won’t be much use, will it?”
