The General slightly raised his hand.
"A minute!" he said. "I was about to tell Chrissie, here, that if I am offered the job—of course it's an order really—of suppressing the Ulster Volunteers . . . I'd rather cut my throat than do it. . . ."
Sandbach said:
"Of course you would, old chap. They're our brothers. You'd see the beastly, lying Government damned first."
"I was going to say that I should accept," the General said, "I shouldn't resign my commission."
Sandbach said:
"Good God!"
Tietjens said:
"Well, I didn't."
Sandbach exclaimed: