I'm very busy, and shall be here till past seven.

I suppose you can stay ?" "All night, if you wish it, sir." "Very well.

That will do for the present .-- I wouldn't have had these letters delayed for twenty pounds." "I don't suppose it would have mattered one straw if both of them remained unopened till next week." This last little speech, however, was not made aloud to Sir Raffle, but by Johnny to himself in the solitude of his own room.
Very soon after that he went away, Sir Raffle having discovered that one of the letters in question required his immediate return to the West End.

"I've changed my mind about staying.

I shan't stay now.