TRANTO. What?
CULVER. Knighthood.
TRANTO. Cheap! But what a sell for me!
CULVER. Now, ladies and gentlemen, the last name with which I will trouble you is that of Mr. James Brill.
TRANTO. Not Jimmy Brill!
CULVER. Jimmy Brill.
CULVER. Stop, my dear Tranto. No crude phrases, please. ( Reads .) 'Mr. James Brill, to use the language of metaphor, possessed a pistol, which pistol he held point blank at the head of the Government. The Government has thought it wise to purchase Mr. James Brill's pistol—'
TRANTO. But he's a—
CULVER ( raising a hand ). He is merely the man with the pistol, and in exchange for the pistol he gets a baronetcy.