"Sit back, darling," Phil told her. "Seatbelt on.
Britain, of course, will have none of it, and Alistair Darling sat through the debate in silence.
Speaking at on event in London on Wednesday organised by the Resolution Foundation to mark the 10th anniversary of Northern Rock's collapse, Darling sat alongside Nicky Morgan, the Tory MP and Treasury select committee chair, who said the banking crisis was still raised by voters on the doorstep.
The Tory leader, who joked that if Brown sat any closer to Darling on the Commons bench "they would start kissing", repeated allegations that Brown's former spin doctor, Damian McBride, "spread poison" about Darling.
Reluctant to engage in guerilla warfare by off-the-record briefing, the style practised by Brown and Blair for more than a decade, Darling just sat tight and tried to contain his resentment.
Inside the dark auditorium in Venice, moments before the screening of "Kill Your Darlings," Radcliffe sat beside John Krokidas, the film's director, and waited.
On a different theatrical occasion, Valerie wrote on a playbill for Anouilh's Antigone, "I sat next to TSE, my darling, and that makes any play endurable".
Valerie, as much as her "Tom", is alert to posterity's gaze when she writes, on a playbill for Anouilh's Antigone: "I sat next to TSE, my darling, and that makes any play endurable". If their contemporaries in 1957 could have seen these notes - an enthralling insight into a late love affair - they may have been astonished.
My darling wife and I sat on the couch one day and just browsed through some images on the internet.
I then sat down to structure it, and I had several darlings to kill and new ones to include.
