What Mr.Jones asks you is--what would be your position if it should take place?
The little diatribe with which you have just favored me is exactly the reply we should have expected to receive formally from Downing Street.

It isn't that sort of reply I want to take back to Mr.Jones." Mr.Smith and his colleague exchanged glances, and the latter drew his chief on one side.
"You will excuse me for a moment, I know, Mr.Coulson," he said.
"Why, by all means," Mr.Coulson declared.

"My time is my own, and it is entirely at your service.

If you say the word, I'll go outside and wait." "It is not necessary," Sir Edward answered.
The room was a large one, and the two men walked slowly up and down, Mr.
Smith leaning all the time upon his colleague's shoulder.

They spoke in an undertone, and what they said was inaudible to Mr.Coulson.