"A young man for whom two such elders had devoted themselves would indeed be culpable if he threw himself away and made their sacrifices vain.
Brooke was really culpable; he ought to have hindered it.
It has been found highly culpable on both sides of the Atlantic.
But it's better late than never, and whether or not it directly leaked the buyers' personal information last week, China's government must recognize that it is culpable here.