Short of Glory
“He talked all the time. Was it true that Patrick’s baggage, so far from having left London, was probably not even loaded? In which case he had a favour to ask.
It was another minute or two before the favour was made known because Sir Wilfrid turned into a one-way street. Once out he explained that Mrs Acupu, a member of the black Kuweto council that was elected by a tiny proportion of the Kuweto electorate, was on a sponsored tour to Britain. The trip had not gone well. After spending thous...ands of pounds on getting her there the Office was messing it up by not getting the little things right. Sir Wilfrid was particularly upset because the trip had been his idea. Of course, she was aiming a bit high in expecting to be met by the Queen at Heathrow and he had told her so, but the Office might have done a bit better than just sending old Formerly from the department. Apparently they hadn’t hit it off at all. Then there’d been some sort of row about racism with the chief of the Metropolitan Police and after that the Office arranged for her to stay in a place in Brixton.MoreLess
It was another minute or two before the favour was made known because Sir Wilfrid turned into a one-way street. Once out he explained that Mrs Acupu, a member of the black Kuweto council that was elected by a tiny proportion of the Kuweto electorate, was on a sponsored tour to Britain. The trip had not gone well. After spending thous...ands of pounds on getting her there the Office was messing it up by not getting the little things right. Sir Wilfrid was particularly upset because the trip had been his idea. Of course, she was aiming a bit high in expecting to be met by the Queen at Heathrow and he had told her so, but the Office might have done a bit better than just sending old Formerly from the department. Apparently they hadn’t hit it off at all. Then there’d been some sort of row about racism with the chief of the Metropolitan Police and after that the Office arranged for her to stay in a place in Brixton.MoreLess
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