[smiling]
Ah, that I fear I do not understand.
PIKE
[remorsefully]
I'm afraid I have. You and Ivanoff and me—all three of us. This Hawcastle knows, and he knows it as well as I know you're sittin' in that chair, that we've got that poor fellow in yonder.
[Pointing to the door on the right.]
VASILI
Surely you can trust Lord Hawcastle not to mention it. He must know that the consequences for you, as well as for me, would be, to say the least, disastrous. Surely you made that clear to him.
PIKE
[grimly]