The family nurse and the butler scaled the stairs in flying jumps and found him slumped in a chair, wan face seeking cover in the curve of his shoulder.
This is a carrot and stick approach -- in which the carrot may be the lure of an exclusive interview, and the stick is the publicists' insistence that you should cover disturbing half-chair half-woman type films as a trade-off to gain access to the cast of a great one.
"These will be on the plaque for all the other Welsh mining tragedies and are likely to include words to the effect of 'Hopefully the four miners killed at Gleision will be the last', " said Jack Humphreys, chair of the group, which is still raising money to cover the cost of the memorial.