'Ninety per cent of people who go missing make contact within three days, Sue,' Jason said. So it appears with Sir Peter Lampl, the millionaire philanthropist who went missing from his home this week before he was found at a railway station. And so it was with me.

I'd gone to the wire - as a journalist, ever the deadline junkie - and my three days were up when I walked into a telephone booth in Bath and rang a friend's number.