"I could ask you the very same questions," the dark figure said.

"We feel there is a need for change," another figure said.

Let's just wait and see what the official figures say, he says.

The seated figure looked up at him but said nothing.

"Took me a hundred years to get up here," the figure said.

"You could be here for a long time," said the figure.

"I know the feeling," the figure in the other bed said.

The figure said this, moving her arms, to indicate the garden.

Asked for an opinion today, a leading legal figure said he did not know and it was no concern of his.

This year's official figures say that about 17 percent of the budget will go for defense.