I must go and eat a leaf.

If in three months no change has taken place in me, I will lend you a bean to examine.

I can do no more than that.

Until this matter is absolutely settled, they are worth more than life itself to me." Mr.Cowper seemed annoyed.
"Surely," he protested, "you are not going to ask me to wait three months until I can examine one of these ?" "Three months will soon pass," Burton replied.

"Until that time is up, I could not part with them." "But you can't imagine," the professor pleaded, "how marvelously interesting this is to me.