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It's the only one we are going to vote for; and they ought to be
told about it for the credit of the family and the good of their own
souls. You just tip them a chapter from the gospel of the brothers
Barnabas, Daddy.
_Lubin and Burge turn inquiringly to Franklyn, suspecting a move to form
a new party._
FRANKLYN. It is quite true, Mr Lubin, that I and my brother have a
little program of our own which--
CONRAD [_interrupting_] It's not a little program: it's an almighty big
one. It's not our own: it's the program of the whole of civilization.
BURGE. Then why split the party before you have put it to us? For God's
sake let us have no more splits. I am here to learn. I am here to gather
your opinions and represent them. I invite you to put your views before
me. I offer myself to be heckled. You have asked me only an absurd
non-political question.
FRANKLYN. Candidly, I fear our program will be thrown away on you. It
would not interest you.
BURGE [_with challenging audacity_] Try. Lubin can go if he likes; but I
am still open to new ideas, if only I can find them.


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