Lamb released his grip.
“If it’s of any interest,” he said, “I still have that twenty pound note.”
In the teeth of the expectations of a Reading bus driver, he might have added.
“So there’s no reason we can’t proceed in a friendly fashion.” He smiled to illustrate ‘friendly fashion,’ though the yellow-stained result might have passed for ‘evil intent.’
— Dead Lions (Mick Herron), Loc. 525–8
It reads funny, considering the Lamb is portrayed by Sir Gary Oldman, who’s famous for evil characters.