But I was on the spot with him; just thought of it in time.

'Well, now, Mr Milburn,' I said, 'you've changed your mind.
Thought that was a thing you Conservatives never did,' I said.

'We don't--I haven't,' he said.

'What d'ye mean?
Twenty-five years ago,' I said, 'when you were considering whether you'd start the Milburn Boiler Works here or in Hamilton, Hamilton offered you a free site, and Elgin offered you a free site and a dam for your water power.

You took the biggest subsidy an' came here,' I said." Lorne laughed: "What did he say to that ?" "Hadn't a word.