I accept the explanation. But be more guarded in future, my dear sir.
NORTH.
I will.
BULLER.
On that assurance I ask you, sir, how is the Tragedy of Macbeth morally saved? That is, how does the degree of complacency with which we consider the two murderers not morally taint ourselves—not leave us predisposed murderers?
NORTH.
That is a question of infinite compass and fathom—answered then only when the whole Theory of Poesy has been expounded.
BULLER.
Whew!