EDMUND. More like a shambles than a game.
WELLS (to Austin). The referee is strangely kind to Blackton, Mr. Whitworth.
AUSTIN. Oh?
JACK (suspiciously). What? What's that you said?
WELLS. I say if I were referee I'd have ordered off half the Blackton team for rough play. This is no match for a damaged man, Metherell.
JACK. So you did try the referee, Mr. Whitworth.
AUSTIN. I don't understand you.
JACK. Don't you? Well, rough or smooth, I'm going through it now. (To Wells.) Thanks for your warning. (To Austin.) And I warn you that referee had best be careful now, or I'll report him.
ELSIE (holding him). For my sake, Jack.
JACK (gently shaking her off). It is for your sake, Elsie, not for his. His consent's nothing to me after this. My record's going to be clean.