We were approaching Big Gate, and he pulled gently at my arm to stop me.
"If that's true, we can't leave it where it is," he sighed. "Grayle can't have it both ways. If he doesn't resign his seat in a week, I shall go on with the proceedings."
"But if you decide to go on in any event?"
"Well, he's no worse off. He'll be in private life then with no political career to bother about."
"And if he refuses and you find you can't enforce the threat? I mean, if your wife asks you not to?"
"I shall find some other way of breaking him. This is not a time for thinking about niceties of law."
"He's not the man to surrender easily," I warned O'Rane.
"I don't know that I am," he answered, and the muscles of his cheeks twitched. "Well, my solicitors are in communication with his——"
"But if he refuses to be bluffed?" I persisted.