notes. JOHN : But without those notes you wouldn’t remember? BALDWIN : What do you mean, John? JOHN : As a matter of fact, you will have to rely on your notes nearly altogether, won’t you?
BALDWIN : Everybody else does the same thing. JOHN : Then it won’t be far from the truth if you say, ‘I don’t remember’? MARTHA : I don’t see that Mr. Gresham is asking so much of you.
BALDWIN : Martha! MARTHA : Robert! I’m as honourable as you are ... BALDWIN : That goes without saying, Martha.
MARTHA : It doesn’t seem right to me to send an old friend to jail. Robert, I’ve been thinking. The day John was baptized , when Mr. Gresham stood sponsor for him, how proud we were!
And when we 12th - - Page came home from the church you said–do you remember what you said Robert? BALDWIN : No. What was it? MARTHA : You said, Martha may our son always live up to the name which we have given him!
Do you remember that? BALDWIN : Yes – dimly. JOHN : Ha! Only dimly, Governor?
BALDWIN : What do you mean, John? MARTHA : ( giving John no opportunity to answer ) It would be sad – very sad- if the– name of John Gresham, our son’s name, should come to grief through you, Robert. BALDWIN : Martha, are you telling me to accept the bribe money that John Gresham offered me? EVIE : Why do you call it bribe money, Father?
BALDWIN : ( bitterly ) Why indeed? Gresham had a prettier name for it. He said that he had underpaid me all these years. You know, I was getting only sixty dollars a week when the crash came.
JOHN : ( impatiently ) Yes, yes? BALDWIN : He said a hundred thousand represented the difference between what he had paid me and what I had actually been worth to him. MARTHA : That’s no less than true, Robert. You’ve worked for him very faithfully.
Let’s understand better: Martha, Baldwin’s wife,