.. but there must be
something radically wrong with a man who could get himself into such a mess
as that ... now mustn't there? Ah! ... you have a fatal partiality for
clever people. I tell you ... though this might be patched up ... Trebell
would fail us in some other way before we were six months older.
_This speech has its effect; but_ HORSHAM _looks at him a little
sternly._
HORSHAM. And am I to conclude that you don't want Charles to change his
mind?
BLACKBOROUGH. [_On another tack._] Farrant has not yet allowed us to hear
Percival's opinion.
FARRANT _looks rather alarmed._
FARRANT. It has very little reference to the scandal.
BLACKBOROUGH. As that is at an end ... all the more reason we should hear
it.
HORSHAM. [_Ranging himself with_ FARRANT.] I called this quite informal
meeting, Blackborough, only to dispose of the scandal, if possible.
BLACKBOROUGH. Well, of course, if Farrant chooses to insult Percival so
gratuitously by burking his message to us....
_There is an unspoken threat in this_, HORSHAM _sees it and without
disguising his irritation...._
HORSHAM. Let us have it, Farrant.
FARRANT. [_With a sort of puzzled discontent._] Well ... I never got to
telling him of the O'Connell affair at all. He started talking to me ...
saying that he couldn't for a moment agree to Trebell's proposals for the
finance of his bill .
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