The man has other careers
besides his political one.
BLACKBOROUGH. [_Ready to praise._] Clever as paint at the Bar--best Company
lawyer we've got.
CANTELUPE. It is not what he loses, I think ... but what we lose in losing
him.
_He says this so earnestly that_ HORSHAM _pays attention._
HORSHAM. No, my dear Charles, let us be practical. If his position with us
is to be made impossible it is better that he shouldn't assume it.
BLACKBOROUGH. [_Soft and friendly._] How far are you actually pledged to
him?
HORSHAM _looks up with the most ingenuous of smiles._
HORSHAM. That's always such a difficult sort of point to determine, isn't
it? He thinks he is to join us. But I've not yet been commanded to form a
cabinet. If neither you--nor Percival--nor perhaps others will work with him
... what am I to do? [_He appeals to them generally to justify this
attitude._]
BLACKBOROUGH. He no longer thinks he's to join us ... it's the question he
left us to decide.
_He leaves_ HORSHAM, _whose perplexity is diminishing._ FARRANT _makes
an effort._
FARRANT. But the scandal won't weaken his position with us now. There won't
be any scandal ... there won't, Blackborough.
HORSHAM. There may be. Though, I take it we're all guiltless of having
mentioned the matter.
BLACKBOROUGH. [_Very detached._] I've only known of it since I came into
this house .
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