"You don't believe that justice should be done even if the heavens fall?"
"I'm not sure that it is not better that one man should suffer, even though unjustly, rather than that a great and glorious tradition should be dragged in the mud and made a mock of."
"Your sentiments do you infinite discredit; I wonder, since you hold them, that I ever let you speak to me."
"Yes--well, I do hold them, and I'm going to continue to speak to you whether you let me or not."
"You haven't got your medicine."
"Young Tickell has made an announcement to the mess which is likely to cause trouble. He laid a cheque on the table for the amount which was in the pool that night, and he said that, as circumstances had arisen which caused him to doubt, he felt that he would like the money to be held in trust till the point was finally decided."
"Bravo, Jackie! Conscience moves in a mysterious way; that really is medicine."
"Yes, I thought you'd think so; it doesn't occur to you to think what the young gentleman's action means for the rest of us."
"I'm hopeful that it will cause your consciences to move in a mysterious way; I've always insisted that the age of miracles is still with us."
"Tickell as good as said that he doubted that Dodwell and Draycott had said the thing which was not, and if we had not all of us behaved infamously."