[_As coldly as ever._] Trebell is morally responsible for every
consequence of the original sin.
WEDGECROFT. That is a hard saying.
FARRANT. [_Continuing his own remarks quite independently._] And I put aside
the possibility that he deliberately helped her to her death to save a
scandal because I don't believe it is a possibility. But if that were so I'd
lift my finger to help him to his. I'd see him hanged with pleasure.
WEDGECROFT. [_Settling this part of the matter._] Well, Farrant, to all
intents and purposes he didn't know and he'd have stopped it if he could.
FARRANT. Yes, I believe that. But what makes you so sure?
WEDGECROFT. I asked him and he told me.
FARRANT. That's no proof.
WEDGECROFT. You read the letter that he sent her ... unless you think it was
written as a blind.
FARRANT. Oh ... to be sure ... yes. I might have thought of that.
_He settles down again. Again no one has anything to say._
CANTELUPE. What is to be said to Mr. O'Connell when he comes?
HORSHAM. Yes ... what exactly do you propose we shall say to O'Connell,
Wedgecroft?
WEDGECROFT. Get him to open his oyster of a mind and....
FARRANT. So it is and his face like a stone wall yesterday. Absolutely
refused to discuss the matter with me!
CANTELUPE. May I ask, Cyril, why are we concerning ourselves with this
wickedness at all?
HORSHAM. Just at this moment when we have official weight without official
responsibility, Charles.
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