Margaret
(To Hubbard.) You coward.
(Hubbard smiles.)
(To Starkweather.) When are you going to call off this hound of yours?
Starkweather
When I get the papers. You see what you've been made to pay for them already. Now listen to me closely. Tom, you listen, too. You know the value of these letters. If they are not recovered they will precipitate a turn-over that means not merely money but control and power. I doubt that even you would be re-elected. So what we have heard in this room must be forgotten—absolutely forgotten. Do you understand?
Chalmers
But it is adultery.
Starkweather
It is not necessary for that word to be mentioned. The point is that everything must be as it was formerly.