is however by the way: the material point is not how you arrived at your conclusion, but that you did arrive at it.
(7) Once more, in his anxiety to remove even the semblance of justification for your reluctance to serve on the Committee, the Governor was disposed to give effect to your wishes. Needless to say, he did not consider them reasonable, but he thought it was just possible to assent to them, as they did not directly contravene the terms of the Secretary of State's instruction. But here he was met by double difficulty: Mr. Belilios, who was invited to join the Committee, declined, and the Chief Justice objected to presiding over a Committee constituted in