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-Here.
-Thank you.
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Do you know the news?
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-What news?
-Sir Thomas Paget is retiring.
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And I succeed him.
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Secretary to the Council?
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You?
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'Tis surprising, isn't it?
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I mean, one sees that's logical.
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Sit down, Rich.
No ceremony, no courtship...
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...as His Majesty would say.
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You see how I trust you.
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I'd never repeat or report a thing like that.
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What kind of thing
would you repeat or report?
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Nothing said in friendship.
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Do you believe that?
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-Why, yes.
-No, seriously.
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Well, yes.
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Rich, seriously.
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That would depend what I was offered.
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Don't say it just to please me.
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It's true. It would depend
what I was offered.
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Well, there is another post vacant.
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Collector of Revenues for York.
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Is it in your gift?
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Effectively.
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What must I do for it?
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I know a man
who wants to change his woman.
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Normally a matter of small importance,
but in this case...
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...it's our liege, Lord Henry,
the eighth of that name.
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Which is a quaint way of saying that
if he wants to change his woman, he will.
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And our job as administrators...
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...is to minimise the inconvenience
which this is going to cause.
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That's our only job, Rich,
to minimise the inconvenience of things.
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A harmless occupation
you would say, but no.
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We administrators are not liked, Rich.