out of his opposition, so that the promise of a statement
need not be fulfilled. What nuisance can be so
great to a man busied with immense affairs, as to
have to explain,—or to attempt to explain,—small
details to men incapable of understanding them?
But Montague had stood to his guns. He had not
intended, he said, to dispute the commercial success
of the company. But he felt very strongly, and
he thought that his brother directors should feel as
strongly, that it was necessary that they should know
more than they did know. Lord Alfred had declared
that he did not in the least agree with his brother
director. ’If anybody don’t understand,
it’s his own fault,’ said Mr Cohenlupe.
But Paul would not give way, and it...