Quotes from John Bainbridge

Lovat liked and detested London at the same time.

My clerk will discuss with you the list of new customers in the meantime. These hard times seem very good for business. People always seem to want money…' 'The price they pay for living in a mercantile society, sir,' said Wicks.

Lovat liked and detested London at the same time. He loathed the poverty that was all around and hated the smug indifference towards it from so many of the people he had to work with. He thought of Mrs Litvinov, a woman without two brass tacks to rub together, but more capacity for kindness than anyone very much in Whitehall.  Mrs Litvinov and her kind ought to run the country, he thought. And what a better country it might be.

Wentworth, get your boys to round up everyone under suspicion. Discreetly, though. We don't want questions asked by those old women at Westminster until we have a few answers to throw back at them.

those old women at Westminster