· 伯纳德: What if the PM insists that we help them? · 汉弗莱: Then we follow the four-stage strategy. · 伯纳德: What’s that? · 多萝西(Dorothy): The standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis. · In stage one, we say nothing is going to happen. · Stage two, we say something may be going to happen but we should do nothing about it. · In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do. · In stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now.