Please wait.
AMY. Thank you.
TREBELL _shuts her in, for a moment seems inclined to lock her in,
but he comes back into his own room and faces_ CANTELUPE, _who having
primed and trained himself on his subject like a gun, fires off a
speech, without haste, but also apparently without taking breath._
CANTELUPE. I was extremely thankful, Mr. Trebell, to hear last week from
Horsham that you will see your way to join his cabinet and undertake the
disestablishment bill in the House of Commons. Any measure of mine, I have
always been convinced, would be too much under the suspicion of blindly
favouring Church interests to command the allegiance of that heterogeneous
mass of thought ... in some cases, alas, of free thought ... which
now-a-days composes the Conservative party. I am more than content to
exercise what influence I may from a seat in the cabinet which will
authorise the bill.
TREBELL. Yes. That chair's comfortable.
CANTELUPE _takes another._
CANTELUPE. Horsham forwarded to me your memorandum upon the conditions you
held necessary and I incline to think I may accept them in principle on
behalf of those who honour me with their confidences.
_He fishes some papers from his pocket._ TREBELL _sits squarely at his
table to grapple with the matter._
TREBELL. Horsham told me you did accept them ... it's on that I'm joining.
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