Jim Hacker: How am I going to explain the missing documents to The Mail?
Sir Humphrey: Well, this is what we normally do in circumstances like these.
Jim Hacker: (reading) This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967… Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?
Sir Humphrey: No, a marvelous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.
Sir Humphrey: Well, this is what we normally do in circumstances like these.
Jim Hacker: (reading) This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967… Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?
Sir Humphrey: No, a marvelous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.