In their Wisdom by C.P. Snow

A fortnight after the meeting in Mr. Skelding's office, that is in the last week of October 1970, the House of Lords was debating the Queen's speech. That is what the Order Paper said; it was the second day of the debate, dedicated to economic and industrial affairs: but at five o'clock in the afternoon there was no excessive excitement. Benches gleamed empty and crimson under the lights, their occupants having gone to tea. On the Opposition side, a Labour economist was making a very long speech upon the history of trade union legislation.

On the Government front bench below the gangway, from which other ex-Ministers except himself had some time before departed, Lord Hillmorton stirred. He had been sitting with legs outstretched, and had to retract himself before he rose to his considerable height. Stopping on his way out, he spoke, audibly, socially, to Lord Ryle, on the last row of the cross benches: