RONNIE: So, we all have copies.
Gates open at 1300 hours.
Simkin and canapes under the boughs.
Now, I've no wish to sound the alarm, but if you turn to your second sheet, not only are the Congress nationalists declining to honor the King, the Muslim League have now also decided to boycott.
Your precious Maharajah?
Will be attending.
Here within the hour.
He'd damn well better.
Thank you, Ronnie.
Here we all are, high water mark in the reign of his Majesty the King, and not one Indian nationalist of note willing to turn out and raise a glass in his name.
Can't you round up the usual crowd of loyalists from the Legislative Assembly?
As you like.
Still, one hoped this bill of yours was going to bind us all together, not drive us further apart.
It's not my bill.
Naturally.
Never is, is it, old love, when things don't quite go according to plan?
Whoopsie!
Chuprassey, the wind caught that chap's hat.
We go on.
Even if it kills us.
