" My dear fellow, at my age one can't afford to fall out. You don't think I've moved in the highest circles for nearly fifty years without realizing that if you're not seen everywhere you're forgotten" .
This isn't like, He's doing something wrong and they're arguing and you're afraid if you take his side, she'll turn on you and be like, well, you're enabling him or you're not helping me.
I kind of diversified in a lot of different ways because if these flip on me for whatever reason, I ain't like the way I wore my hat the other day or whatever.
If India went sideways on the British, you would have a circumstance where the great supply center for the entire Asia war from the British Empire would be unusable or cut off.
It's heartbreaking to see somebody you respected and cared about turn on you and your neighbors, especially in the context of knowing that's not who he was.