You don’t want me any more, do you? [LADY FRANCIS _and_ ANNE _go out_. GEORGE WINTER. No, go to bed. You’re young, and you want your beauty sleep. I’ll be bound you’re not worried by the trains. Where’s your room? O’DONNELL. It’s just above yours. But I sleep like a top. GEORGE WINTER. That’s a good sign. You’ll be as great a man as I am one of these days. O’DONNELL. [_With a laugh._] Good-night. GEORGE WINTER. [_To_ ETCHINGHAM.] And you’d better go off too, old man. You look tired out. ETCHINGHAM. [_Wearily._] It’s been an exciting day for all of us. GEORGE WINTER. It’s been one of the days that make life worth living. ETCHINGHAM. Good-night. [_As they go out_ CATHERINE _comes forward_. CATHERINE. I won’t say good-night to you just yet. If Mr. Ford is not going to keep you long I should like to speak to you afterwards. JAMES FORD. It’ll be ten minutes at the utmost, Mrs. Winter. GEORGE WINTER. [_With exaggerated gallantry._] I’m at your disposal, darling, now and always. [_With a slight bow to_ JAMES FORD, CATHERINE _goes out_. GEORGE WINTER. I told you I was justified in trusting my luck. Everything is coming out right. The Lewishams won’t be able to stand against me much longer. They’ll have to take me in. We’ll combine our interests, and then we shall hold Central America in the hollow of our hands. You’ll be in it too, James. You’re going to be a richer man than you guess. And when I’m in with the Lewishams I shall bide my time. Manny Lewisham can’t last much longer, and his sons are fools. When he’s gone I shall get the whole business in my hands. I’ve got ten times more brains than anyone in that market. There’s no one who can stand against me. JAMES FORD. [_Quietly._] You haven’t forgotten that article in _The Financial Standard_? GEORGE WINTER. [_Gaily._] Oh, is that what you want to talk to me about? I tell you that shan’t disturb my night’s rest. By the way, that reminds me: if I have won the election it was through no help of yours. I asked you to go down and speak in the Cattle Market, and when I got there I found there’d been no sign of you. It might have been devilish awkward. JAMES FORD. Well, it so happens it didn’t matter. GEORGE WINTER. Where did you get to after all? JAMES FORD. [_Looking at him._] I went up to London! GEORGE WINTER. [_Indifferently, doing all he can to hide his suspicion._] Did you? JAMES FORD. [_Very quietly, almost diffidently._] I was struck by one of the paragraphs in the article. The one about where you got the money from. GEORGE WINTER. [_With a smile._] I noticed that seemed to bother you a bit. JAMES FORD. Things were pretty tight at that time. GEORGE WINTER. A man in my position can always lay his hands on money. JAMES FORD. It was a big sum. GEORGE WINTER. Fair to moderate. [_There is a very short pause. The two men, both shrewd, hard and keen, face one another like two duellists._ JAMES FORD.