You ought to have had a holiday.

I think even now you had better go away for a week or two.

Do, Edwin!' 'Impossible! It would be the merest pretence of holiday.

To go away and leave you here--no!' 'Shall I ask mother or Jack to lend us some money ?' 'That would be intolerable.' 'But this state of things is intolerable!' Reardon walked the length of the room and back again.
'Your mother has no money to lend, dear, and your brother would do it so unwillingly that we can't lay ourselves under such an obligation.' 'Yet it will come to that, you know,' remarked Amy, calmly.
'No, it shall not come to that.

I must and will get something done long before Christmas.