We paid for the mine with money that didn’t belong to us.

Etchingham.

What d’you mean?

George Winter.

We’re in exactly the same position as the shop-boy who sneaks five bob from his master’s till to put it on a horse. If the horse comes in he puts it back, and if it doesn’t, he gets a month’s hard labour.... We shall get seven years.

Etchingham.

What are you talking about, George?

George Winter.

Has it escaped your memory that you and I are Directors of the Middlepool Investment Trust?

Etchingham.