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They didn’t have a car, and then they somehow realised that I was behind them. Then I thought to myself, this is perhaps not such a good idea. Went back, couldn’t get into the bank, they had closed everything up, and then of course the police came. And an idiot, some kind of constable, he said...Oh no, at first they were really hysterical. The bank manager, they were all trembling and quaking, and I said, “You weren’t in the war.” “How do you know?” I said, “Because you would know the first thing you do in any crisis is to fill up the kettle. For a cup of tea, eh?” It was a good idea. That’s exactly what he did next.
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