Later, Mrs Grey was sitting in her favourite tea shop. “Would madam like the usual cream cakes and patisserie with her tea?” the waitress asked.

It is funny for the seaside, it looks such a “house-ified' place, it's an ungreen seaside.

It did more to de-nazify the Germans than to nazify the French.

In nonelection years — the “off season” for political consultants — Democratic and Republican strategists have worked together on corporate accounts before, but the amount of teaming up now is striking, even to some of Washington’s oldest hands.