Lord Glover's refusal exposes the hidden cost of coalition-building: when you ask a house to fight against the force that just helped them, you're asking them to commit suicide on principle alone. No amount of moral persuasion beats the math of immediate self-preservation. Persuasion fails when the cost of defection outweighs the reward of loyalty.
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