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But what
a pity! It is such a fascinating idea! I think you are too hard on us
practical men; but there are men in every Government, even on the Front
Bench, who deserve all you say. And now, before dropping the subject,
may I put just one question to you? An idle question, since nothing can
come of it; but still--
FRANKLYN. Ask your question.
LUBIN. Why do you fix three hundred years as the exact figure?
FRANKLYN. Because we must fix some figure. Less would not be enough; and
more would be more than we dare as yet face.
LUBIN. Pooh! I am quite prepared to face three thousand, not to say
three million.
CONRAD. Yes, because you don't believe you Will be called on to make
good your word.
FRANKLYN [_gently_] Also, perhaps, because you have never been troubled
much by vision of the future.
BURGE [_with intense conviction_] The future does not exist for Henry
Hopkins Lubin.
LUBIN. If by the future you mean the millennial delusions which you
use as a bunch of carrots to lure the uneducated British donkey to the
polling booth to vote for you, it certainly does not.


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