CANTELUPE. Well now ... will you explain to me this project for endowing
Education with your surplus?
TREBELL. Putting Appropriation, the Buildings and the Representation
question on one side for the moment?
CANTELUPE. Candidly, I have yet to master your figures....
TREBELL. The roughest figures so far.
CANTELUPE. Still I have yet to master them on the first two points.
TREBELL. [_Firmly premising._] We agree that this is not diverting church
money to actually secular uses.
CANTELUPE. [_As he peeps from under his eyelids._] I can conceive that it
might not be. You know that we hold Education to be a Church function.
But....
TREBELL. Can you accept thoroughly now the secular solution for all Primary
Schools?
CANTELUPE. Haven't we always preferred it to the undenominational? Are there
to be facilities for _any_ of the teachers giving dogmatic instruction?
TREBELL. I note your emphasis on any. I think we can put the burden of that
decision on local authorities. Let us come to the question of Training
Colleges for your teachers. It's on that I want to make my bargain.
CANTELUPE. [_Alert and cautious._] You want to endow colleges?
TREBELL. Heavily.
CANTELUPE. Under public control?
TREBELL. Church colleges under Church control.
CANTELUPE. There'd be others?
TREBELL. To preserve the necessary balance in the schools.
CANTELUPE. Not founded with church money?
TREBELL. Think of the grants in aid that will be released. I must ask the
Treasury for a further lump sum and with that there may be sufficient for
secular colleges ... if you can agree with me upon the statutes of those
over which you'd otherwise have free control.