So, contempt for your people is the first thing your new power has brought you! (He makes a gesture of denial.) You feel you are above them—not of them. Do you believe for a moment that Senator Bough has anything but contempt for you, too?
White
(Confidently)
He needs me.
Hilda
Needs you? Don’t you understand why he had you appointed on that committee? He wanted to get you out of the way.
White
Isn’t that an acknowledgment of my power?
Hilda