You want to be reading.

But I could not be easy till I had spoken to you, and come to a decision.

Sleeping or waking, my head has been full of this matter all night.

It is an evil, but I am certainly making it less than it might be.

If Tom is up, I shall go to him directly and get it over, and when we meet at breakfast we shall be all in high good-humour at the prospect of acting the fool together with such unanimity.