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:'''{{cmr}}''': Oh?
:'''{{cmr}}''': Oh?
:'''{{jbm}}''': Quite so. It was information about the plaintiff's ''business''. Not the plaintiff.
:'''{{jbm}}''': Quite so. It was information about the plaintiff's ''business''. Not the plaintiff.
:'''{{cmr}}''': {{Jerrold}} if I read the situation correctly, you are asking me to adopt a quite perverse interpretation in order to completely subvert commercial intention of the arrangement. Would you say that is fair?
:'''{{cmr}}''': Your argument is that in formation about the plaintiff’s business should somehow be taken as not being “about the plaintiff”?
:'''{{jbm}}''': I would have to take instructions, m'lud. In the mean time —
:'''{{jbm}}''': Those are my instructions, m’lud.
:'''{{cmr}}''': So, you would have me adopt a quite perverse interpretation in order to completely subvert commercial intention of the arrangement.
:'''{{jbm}}''' ''(frantically scanning his brief)'': Yes, that’s it exactly, my liege.
:'''{{cmr}}''':  Would you say that is fair?
:'''{{jbm}}''': I would have to take instructions, m’lud. In the mean time —
:'''{{cmr}}''':  You wish the ground would open up and swallow you?
:'''{{cmr}}''':  You wish the ground would open up and swallow you?
:'''{{jbm}}''': I do, m'lud.
:'''{{jbm}}''': I do, m’lud.