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‘Precisely so,’ said Morley. ‘Which is what makes it truly a dilemma: if it weren’t a dilemma it wouldn’t be such a—’
‘Dilemma,’ said Miriam.
‘Yes. Arguably, to participate at all in such an enterprise is wrong, because the moral wrongs are already in place, established and unavoidable, meaning that you, sir’ – he turned again to the signalman and spoke to him directly – ‘had no meaningful choice at all, but were, rather, condemned to doing ill, whatever your decision and whatever the circumstances.’
In Morley’s reckoning these were doubtless intended as words of comfort, but to any normal human being of course they were a terrible insult.
George Wilson the signalman was furious. ‘It wasn’t my fault!’ he said, getting up from the table.
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