Get Humphrey to come back here at once.
Yes, Minister. [Picks up phone] The Minister wonders if Sir Humphrey could spare time for a meeting sometime in the next few days.
At once.
In fact, sometime today is really...
At once!
...Sometime during the next 60 seconds. [hangs up] He's coming round now.
Why? Did he faint?
No, he's just, you know...
[they both start giggling]
This is serious, Bernard.
Yes, I know.
This is no laughing matter.
No, certainly not.
The question is, how am I going to deal with it?
In my opinion...
The question was purely rhetorical, Bernard.
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