I'll give you an address where you can buy hand-knitted socks and mittens to present as your own work to some charity for distribution to our soldiers. I'll do nothing of the sort! What an idea! The idea, Sylvia, is for you to engage in an act of public patriotism, to offset your exploits with the Esterhazys and Grunwald-Merkses, which have pretty well done for Christopher! Do you mean to say those unspeakable swine think I'm pro-German because I sent toffees..? It's Christopher that suffers. He hasn't got on the way a man of his brilliance should have got on. A friend of his came to see me. A Mr Ruggles, he's something about the court. He came to ask me whether something might be done for Christopher. "It's almost as if Christopher has a black mark against him." That's how Mr Ruggles put it.