"Let you go? Not if you'll only be reasonable."
"I mean this thing about the letters."
"Yes."
"You're going to make use of these fellows' money-power in politics?"
"It's already in politics. It always has been."
"But you are going to try to use it for yourself?"
"Yes, I am. It's my own business."
"Is it? That money is blood-money, Leighton."
"You're a fool!"
"I know I am. But it's you that I'm worried about. You're quite determined?"