Bertram Smith

“ I don't think the Moratorium was intended to work in this sort of way. I've got to report myself at the War Office, and I can't go. You may think you're acting as a good citizen should. You may not be hoarding gold or hoarding food, but you are hoarding me. ”

“ I went at once into the library, where I found James making up a parcel of three half-sovereigns to send to his bank. No one is going to accuse James of hoarding gold.
"About that fiver," I began.
"Ah, yes. I was just coming out to talk to you about that before you went," said he. "Now that I'm sending all this stuff to the bank I'm just afraid I may be a little short. I'll tell you what I think we ought to do, you and I. I think we ought to enter into a temporary Moratorium. All the best people are doing it. ”

“ Joan's thoughtful voice intervened.
"I can tell you what it is," she said. "It's a place for burying people—a sort of big tomb where they put dead kings. There's one at at Windsor."
Curiously enough I was myself at the moment rather puzzled as to what it was and how it worked. ”