" She had genuinely been onside at first, and so when David Cummings had offered to pay her “expenses,” which had sorted her worries about keeping her old mum in the care home she liked, she’d only hesitated a moment: she was being paid to support a cause she supported anyway. They could waste their money on her if they liked. This was obviously just how grown-ups did things. "

― Paul Cornell , Witches of Lychford (Lychford, #1)