You hear what has happened ?" "Fellow's trying to tell me," Norgate replied, "but his Flemish is worse to understand than German." "The steamer," Selingman announced, "has met with an accident entering the harbour.

There will be a delay of at least six hours--possibly more.
It is most annoying.

My appointments in London have been fixed for days." "Bad luck!" Norgate murmured.
"You do not seem much distressed." "Why should I be?
I really came this way because I was not sure whether I would not stay here for a few days." "That is all very well for you," Selingman declared, as they followed their porters into the shed.

"For me, I am a man of affairs.

It is different.