Sales Assistant: We can have it delivered to you first thing Monday morning.

Margaret Meldrew: Not until then?

Sales Assistant: Isn’t that alright?

Margaret Meldrew: All right? I’ve just spent the most unutterably miserable week of my entire life coping with a husband deprived of his television set. If I have to prolong that agony for another hour, let alone another weekend, I may just do something very regrettable with a pair of razor-tipped salad tongs.

Chris