"Ah, but he must not, in this case. Good Lord, have I not explained that a thousand times already? You always miss my point. It is illegal, don't you understand? Illegal, illegal." "Anybody can say that. It would be a very natural thing to say, under the circumstances. I should say it myself! Now just take my advice. You go and tell your brother----" "My brother? It is not my brother. You are quite beside the point. Why introduce this personal element? It is the Strega Company. Strega, a liqueur. I am talking about a commercial concern obtaining an injunction. Burroughs and Wellcome--they got injunctions on the same grounds. I know a great deal of such things, though I don't talk about them all day long as other people would, if they possessed half my knowledge. A company, don't you see? An injunction. A liqueur. Please to note that I am talking about a company, a company. Have I now made myself clear, or how many more times----" "One would think he was at least your brother, from the way you take his part. Let us say he is a friend, then; some never-to-be-mentioned friend who is interested in a shady liqueur business and now wants to make a judge do something to make a man do something----" "Wrong again! To prevent a man doing something----" "--Wants to do something to make a judge do something to prevent a man doing something he wants to do because he does not want him to do it. Is that right? Very well. You tell your friend that no Italian judge is going to do dirty work of that kind for nothing." "Dirty work. God Almighty! I don't want any judge to do dirty work----" "No doubt, no doubt. I am quite convinced you don't. But your priceless friend does. Come now! Why not be open about it?" "Open about what?" "It is positively humiliating for me to be treated like this, after all the years we have known each other. I wish you would try to cultivate the virtue of frankness. You are far too secretive. Something will really have to be done about it." "A company, a company." "A company consists of a certain number of human beings. Why make mysteries about one of them? It may happen to the best of mankind to be mixed up----" "Mixed up----" "You are going to be disagreeable about my choice of words. Have it your way! We all know you think you can talk better Italian than the Pope. My own father, I was going to say, has been involved in some pretty dirty work in the course of his professional career----" "No doubt, no doubt." "And please to note that he is as good a man as any brother of yours." "You always miss my point." "Now try to be truthful, for once in your life. Out with it!" "A liqueur." "Is that all? Sleep does not seem to have sharpened your wits to any great extent." "I was not asleep. I was thinking about eggs. A company." "A company? You are waking up. Anything else?" "An injunction...."