It will take some time to get this system under full operation.

I presume that you will come to me as many as ten times the first day." "O, no," said Marco, "I don't mean to come to you once." "You will,--I have no doubt.

What shall I say to you if you do?
Will it be a good plan for me to answer your question ?" "Why, no," said Marco, "I suppose not." "And yet, if I refuse to answer, it will not be very pleasant to you.
It will put you out of humor." "No," said Marco.
"I will have one invariable answer to give you," said Forester.

"It shall be this,--Act according to your own judgment.

That will be a little more civil than to take no notice of your question at all, and yet it will preserve our principle,--that I am to give you no assistance except in my half-hour.