"How long shall you be at the office ?" "About an hour--perhaps longer." "I will wait for you!" "I'd rather you didn't.

I don't want them to think that I go trailing about with an escort." "Then may I come down to your flat?
I have something really important to say to you, Ernestine.

It does not concern myself at all.

It is wholly about you.

It is something which you ought to know." "You are trading upon my curiosity for the sake of a tea," she laughed.
"Very well, about five o'clock." He bowed and walked back westwards with a graver look than usual upon his boyish face, for he had a task before him which was very little to his liking.