Charlie Ward. Nobody.
Paul Ruttledge. Never mind, you can keep count on your fingers. The rest must sit down and behave themselves as befits a court. They say they are living like Christians. Let us see.
Thomas Ruttledge. Oh, Paul, don't make such a fool of yourself.
Paul Ruttledge. The point is not wisdom or folly, but the Christian life.
Mr. Dowler. Don't answer him, Thomas. Let us preserve our dignity.
Mr. Algie. Yes, let us keep a dignified attitude—we won't answer these ruffians at all.
Paul Ruttledge. Respect the court! [Turns to Colonel Lawley.] You have served your Queen and country in the field, and now you are a colonel of militia.
Colonel Lawley. Well, what is there to be ashamed of in that? Answer me that, now.
Paul Ruttledge. Yet there is an old saying about turning the other cheek, an old saying, a saying so impossible that the world has never been able to get it out of its mind. You have helped to enlist men for the army, I think? Some of them have fought in the late war, and you have even sent some of your own militia there.
Colonel Lawley. If I did I'm proud of it.