He _is_ prepared not to make too long a stay in England.

He dined here on the 19th.

Louise was prepared to come to dinner, but was not quite equal to it; she therefore came after it.

He came also to see me on the 20th, before his departure for Ostende.

It is very gracious of you to have given him subsidies, but in fact poor Feo stands more in need of it.