Caroline, This Is Our Flaming Money

The Natural History Museum has just bought a flaming meteorite. Well, presumably it's not flaming any more, but it is a bit of meteorite and they have bought it from a private collection.

So how much of our money did they pay for it?

"I'm not going to tell you," Dr Caroline Smith, meteorite curator at the Natural History Museum, replied to Humphrys this morning.

Er... sorry Caroline. Do you understand how this stuff works?

You are our servant. We pay your wages and we also fund your museum. We want to know how you spend our money.

Simple as.