"Zip it, I said.  Miriam, about a week from now we'll all sit down and get Anne to tell us what we really did see.  But right now everybody and his cousins will be phoning here and reporters will be crawling out of the trees-and I've got to make a couple of calls first.  I need help.  Are you the sort of useless female who comes unstuck when she's needed?  That reminds me- Make a note to dock Dorcas's pay for the time she spent having hysterics."