Today's Stichomancy for Orson Welles

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare:

HALES. About it, then; the Lords will straight be here.-- Cromwell, thou hast those parts would rather suit The service of the state, than of my house. I look upon thee with a loving eye, That one day will prefer thy destiny.

[Enter Messenger.]

MESSENGER. Sir, the Lords be at hand.

HALES. They are welcome; bid Cromwell straight attend us,