You weren’t kidding, Trevor.

The Ministry’s fortunes are certainly on the rise!
His Majesty has been very generous in the establishment of our new premises.

And in the remuneration for my services?
I think you will find him similarly generous.

Ah! That is a pleasing number of zeros.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. There are certain ground rules I need to establish up front if this whole thing is going to work.

And these would be?
Firstly-
Actually, no.

Can we both just assume that basically I’m going to do whatever the hell I like and that you’ll shout at me about some it, but as long as I get results all will be forgiven?
Sigh. Ground rules accepted.