When I take into consideration the trouble and expense you have incurred in coming here, and the subsequent disappointment of the affections, a widow's affections, I feel justified in offering, though without my friend's permission, to pay your journey back to America, an offer which any further unpleasantness or delay would of course oblige me to retract." She hesitated, and he saw his advantage and kept it.
"You have not much time to lose," he said, laying his watch on the table, "unless you would prefer the house-keeper to do your packing for you.

No?
I agree with you.

On a sea voyage especially, one likes to know where one's things are.

If I give you a check for your return journey, I shall, of course, expect you to sign a paper to the effect that you have no claim on Mr.Dare, that you never were his legal wife, and that you will not trouble him in future.

You would like a few moments for reflection?
Good! I will write out the form while you consider, as there is no time to be lost." He looked about for writing materials, and, finding only an ancient inkstand and pen, took a note from his pocket-book and tore a blank half-sheet off it.