f it, and so
    perhaps the only question is whether any person has
    perpetrated an impertinence by bringing them into
    the fray, but it was you who invited them to the
    party -- all I did nothing more outré than more
    formally to introduce them, quite as I earlier
    promised that I should, and so I will simply
    have to leave it to you to answer for their
    conduct and their bearing on the affairs
    at stake.

2.  Let us recall that we have all agreed, at least, so long as we continue