"Perhaps everything ought to be broken up. But I say nothing about that. What I do say is this. That as we sit here as directors and will be held to be responsible as such by the public, we ought to know what is being done. We ought to know where the shares really are. I for one do not even know what scrip has been issued."
"You've bought and sold enough to know something about it," said Melmotte.
Paul Montague became very red in the face. "I, at any rate, began," he said, "by putting what was to me a large sum of money into the affair."

"As we sit here as directors and will be held responsible as such by the public, we ought to know what is being done. We ought to know where the shares really are. I for one do not even know what scrip has been issued."
"You've bought and sold enough to know something about it," said Melmotte.
Paul Montague became very red in the face. "I began," he said, "by putting what was to me a large sum of money into the affair."
