toned you down.

SIR JOHN. I've served my country fifty years, and I say she is not
in the wrong.

MORE. I hope to serve her fifty, Sir John, and I say she is.

MENDIP. There are moments when such things can't be said, More.

MORE. They'll be said by me to-night, Mendip.

MENDIP. In the House?

[MORE nods.]

KATHERINE. Stephen!

MENDIP. Mrs. More, you mustn't let him. It's madness.

MORE. [Rising] You can tell people that to-morrow, Mendip. Give it
a leader in 'The Parthenon'.

MENDIP. Political lunacy! No man in your position has a right to
fly out like this at the eleventh hour.

MORE. I've made no secret of my feelings all along. I'm against
this war, and against the annexation we all know it will lead to.

MENDIP. My dear fellow! Don't be so Quixotic! We shall have war
within the next twenty-four hours, and nothing you can do will stop