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28 CECIL Why do you always get so excited Ed? If we've got it in the files, it means we've taken care of it. All right, I'm looking! Let's see. 1943. Looks like I didn't bring that one.

EDWARD Well then go get it!

EDWARD He'll find it! He'll find I was in India then. What'll you make out of that?

HAROLD Clumsy imbecil!

EDWARD Oh yea? Just because I never graduated from military school? Just because I can't dance a minuet in uniform like you can? That means I was in every racial riot that ever happened?

HAROLD You can't even cover yourself decently. If you're talking about the time you were in India starting the crockery plant, that was years after Pretoria's father had left South Africa.

EDWARD Don't tell me where I was! Cecil's going to find it in the books. You're a big man now, aren't you Harold! Flying around the world talking to the foreign service boys!

DARIUS STARK Restrain yourselves! Why's everyone taking this thing so seriously? Edward had about as much to do with beating Pretoria's father as I had with ruining him.