George didn't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter - offer of Number 10 (‘ As it's a Saturday, we could use the Cabinet Room; think how that would look in your memoirs’)— or one of his clubs, naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II, and finally agreeing on this no - man's - land.
George didn't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter - offer of Number 10 (‘ As it's a Saturday, we could use the Cabinet Room; think how that would look in your memoirs’)— or one of his clubs, naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II, and finally agreeing on this a land that no one want to buy.