The two men who had walked up together arm in arm from Downing Street, stood for several moments in Pall Mall before separating.

The pressman who was passing yearned for the sunlight in his camera.

One of the greatest financiers of the city in close confabulation with Mr.Gordon Jones, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was an interesting, almost an historical sight.
"It is a source of the greatest satisfaction to me, Sir Alfred," the Minister was saying earnestly, "to find such royal and whole-hearted support in the city.

I am afraid," he went on, with a little twinkle in his eyes, "that there are times when I have scarcely been popular in financial circles." "We have hated you like poison," the other assured him, with emphasis.
"The capitalists must always hate the man who tries to make wealth pay its just share in the support of the Empire," Mr.Gordon Jones remarked.
"The more one has, the less one likes to part with it.

However, those days have passed.