I already said, there's plenty of clocks at the Ministry, Ford considered saying, but he didn't know what good it would do. It had been a lie the first time he'd said it, and Cash knew it, just as Cash had been lying about what they'd been talking about and Ford knew it. He could insist on the lie, but why bother? Cash wasn't going to believe him the second time around any more than he had the first.

"I used to," he said instead, and while this was true it was also not even close to a real answer to Cash's question. Instead of explaining, he deflected back to Cash: "You have two watches, but you carry the rusted one?"

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