13. What is the significance of the "war party" in which Haydon gives Guillam a hard time?

[Jen]

13. What is the significance of the "war party" in which Haydon gives Guillam a hard time?

[Jen]

I think it was a way of trying to get information out of Guillam about how much Tarr told him and to plant seeds of doubt into the reliability of any testimony by Tarr.

[Patrick]

I suspect that Haydon also felt that something was afoot and he was probably trying to get some information about it and to scare the opposition, in case Haydon thought that Guillam knew of (or was active in) the plans of the opposition.

[Paula]

I agree with Jen and Patrick, but I also thought that Guillam was so nervous and worried about being found out that it was hard to separate what happened from his interpretation of it. It's quite possible that everyone was behaving normally and Guillam just put a sinister spin to it.