Should any of the staff determine to remain in Alexandria, and to take their chance of finding something to do, you are authorized to pay them three months' salary, and to promise to reinstate them, as soon as we reopen.
"I anticipate no further disturbances, whatever.

A strong force is being sent out, and there can be no doubt that Arabi will be crushed, as soon as it is ready to take the field." Other directions followed, but these were only amplifications of those mentioned.
"What do you think, Annie ?" Gregory said, when Ferguson had read to his staff that portion of the letter that concerned them.

"Shall we take the three months' pay and remain here, or shall we go back to England ?" "What do you think, yourself ?" "There are two lights in which to look at it, Annie.

First, which would be best for us?
And secondly, which shall we like best?
Of course, the first is the more difficult point to decide.

You see, Partridge doesn't say that we shall be kept on; he only says that he will do his best for us.