the papers were signed , and head of station m , who had agreed to act as bond 's best man and who was secretly longing to write a sensational note to the head of his london section about all this , produced a handful of confetti and threw most of it over marc-ange , who had turned up in a 'cylindre ' and a full suit of very french tails with , surprisingly , two rows of medals of which the last , to bond 's astonishment , was the fling 's medal for foreign resistance-fighters .