There is an unspoken threat in this. horsham sees it and without disguising his irritation. . .
horsham. Let us have it, Farrant.
farrant. [With a sort of puzzled discontent.] Well . . I never got to telling him of the O'Connell affair at all. He started talking to me . . saying that he couldn't for a moment agree to Trebell's proposals for the finance of his bill . . I couldn't get a word in edgeways. Then his wife came up. . .
horsham takes something in this so seriously that he actually interrupts.
horsham. Does he definitely disagree? What is his point?
farrant. He says Disestablishment's a bad enough speculation for the party as it is.
blackborough. It is inevitable.
farrant. He sees that. But then he says . . to go to the country again having bolstered up Education and quarrelled with everybody will be bad enough . . to go having spent fifty millions on it will dish us all for our lifetimes.
horsham. What does he propose?