trebell. Don't mock at money.
wedgecroft. I never have.
trebell. But you speak of it as an end not as a means. That's unfair.
wedgecroft. I speaks as I finds.
trebell. I'll buy the Church, not with money, but with the promise of new life. [A certain rather gleeful cunning comes over him.] It'll only look like a dose of reaction at first . . Sectarian Training Colleges endowed to the hilt.
wedgecroft. What'll the Nonconformists say?
trebell. Bribe them with the means of equal efficiency. The crux of the whole matter will be in the statutes I'll force on those colleges.
wedgecroft. They'll want dogma.
trebell. Dogma's not a bad thing if you've power to adapt it occasionally.
wedgecroft. Instead of spending your brains in explaining it. Yes, I agree.