AMY. Well ... in here?
TREBELL. If you like law-books.
AMY. I haven't been much of an interruption now, have I?
TREBELL. Please wait.
AMY. Thank you.
TREBELL _shuts her in, for a moment seems inclined to lock her in,
but he comes back into his own room and faces_ CANTELUPE, _who having
primed and trained himself on his subject like a gun, fires off a
speech, without haste, but also apparently without taking breath._
CANTELUPE. I was extremely thankful, Mr. Trebell, to hear last week from
Horsham that you will see your way to join his cabinet and undertake the
disestablishment bill in the House of Commons. Any measure of mine, I have
always been convinced, would be too much under the suspicion of blindly
favouring Church interests to command the allegiance of that heterogeneous
mass of thought ... in some cases, alas, of free thought ... which
now-a-days composes the Conservative party. I am more than content to
exercise what influence I may from a seat in the cabinet which will
authorise the bill.
TREBELL. Yes. That chair's comfortable.