The Avengers (TV Series)

The Positive Negative Man (1967)

Caroline Blakiston: Cynthia Wentworth-Howe

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• Cynthia Wentworth-Howe : I'm Cynthia Wentworth-Howe, Top Hush Secretary to the Minister.

  John Steed : How do you do?

  Emma Peel : Top Hush?

  Cynthia Wentworth-Howe : We assistants come in four grades: 'Confidential', 'Secret', 'Most Secret' and 'Top Hush'.

  John Steed : Eh, you've reached the top of your profession, then?

  Cynthia Wentworth-Howe : Not quite. My ultimate ambition is to achieve the special category of 'Button Lip', the pinnacle of secrecy. Not a single syllable passed on before being vetted, examined, coded and cleared.

• Cynthia Wentworth-Howe : All the confidential war records are kept here.

  John Steed : Have there been many confidential wars?