Now on the seventeenth of September Mr  met Peter  on the defendant's firm er for the first time at his office, where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it  and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter  that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist  and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm, for two reasons.