"I also think those attacks against you are excessive." Eld couldn't help but interject, "Why are they fixating on staff salaries? Four thousand three hundred pounds for a peaceful Canada; anyone with even a basic understanding of political economics knows this is a very worthwhile investment."
Dalhousie coughed and cursed, "Calculate? What can they calculate? They only calculate the money in their own pockets. That bastard Chandos reads the accounts line by line in the Lower House, doing it more devoutly than praying. He says Gosford only spent one thousand five hundred pounds on secretaries, while I spent four thousand three hundred pounds, as if the two thousand eight hundred pounds difference came out of his own pocket."
