Not during the fasting month of Ramadan, the minister replied.

Asked by some exiles about the prospects for elections, the two ministers replied that they would have to wait.

"That, good sir, is but a fantasy of yours," replied the minister.

"Which is nothing more than sheer conjecture, from what I have heard," replied the minister of state intelligence.

"As you say," the first minister replied, "we can work toward a solution."

"You need have no fear on that score," the Algarvian minister replied.

The minister replied that in this case there would be a crisis state.

"Only a handful of people outside the Council knew," the prime minister replied.

"There are those in the Council who have asked that very question," the prime minister replied.

"There is no guarantee that they will," the prime minister replied.