You seem to think that your friends at the Foreign Office are not going to find you another position--for some time, at any rate.

You are not one of those men who think of nothing but sport and amusing themselves.

What are you going to do during the next few months ?" "At present," he confessed thoughtfully, "I have only the vaguest ideas.
Perhaps you could help me." "Perhaps I could," she admitted.

"We will talk of that another time, if you like." It was obvious that she was speaking under a certain tension.

The silence which ensued was significant.
"Why not now ?" he asked.
"It is too soon," she answered, "and you would not understand.