"And Murray and I have been at it since seven o'clock.

I want to put some of these papers straight before Griffenberg and the rest leave to-day." "They are going to-day ?" said Stafford.
"Oh, yes; there will be a general exodus.

A great many of the people were only staying on until we could be sure we had pulled this railway scheme through.

Falconer and his daughter--I beg your pardon, my dear Stafford, I mean Maude!--talk of going to-day.

But I persuaded them to stay until to-morrow.