Jack. Oh, yes, I can! But I shan’t want to. We are going away to live our own lives——
Belson. You mean——
Jack. Yes, I mean——
Belson.—that you’re going to be a voluntary outcast—a vagabond——
Jack. Well, it doesn’t matter to you what I do so long as I——
Belson. Yes, it does. You belong to an honourable profession and you are trying to leave it dishonourably.
Jack (hotly). No, I’m not. I’ve sent in my papers——
Belson. Which will not be accepted. Mam’zelle, do you think that your father would have treated the Japanese Navy as Mr. Maitland proposes to treat the British?
Jack. That’s nothing to do with it. There’s no war on. You only want to take me home to England. I don’t want to go—I won’t go.
Belson. Mam’zelle, do you think that your brother would act like this? Would you respect him if he did? And believe me—I say it with all deference—“East is East and West is West.”