AUSTIN. Well, you've to make the best you can of Angus. Metherell belongs to Birchester now.
ELSIE. I don't know what you're thinking about, father. Are you mad? What did you do it for?
AUSTIN. Money, my dear, which the Club needs badly.
ELSIE. It'll need it worse if we lose to-day and drop to the second division.
AUSTIN. We must not lose to-day.
FLORENCE. You're asking for it. Transferring Metherell. The rest are a pack of rotters.
AUSTIN. They've got to fight for their lives to-day. Birchester offered a record fee on condition I fixed at once. I was there last night with Metherell and he signed on for them.
FLORENCE. It's a howling shame.
LEO. And over Blackton Rovers was written Ichabod, their glory is departed.
ELSIE. Father, do you mind if I go? I might say some of the things I'm thinking if I stayed.