Then he felt it necessary to make some excuse for his idleness.
"There's no use," he said, "my starting before eleven.

Simpkins won't be out of bed until late to-day.

He'll be thoroughly exhausted after all he went through on the _Spindrift_." "Start any time you like," said the Major.
Meldon's remark interrupted him in the middle of adding up a long column of pence.

He failed to recollect where he had got to and was obliged to begin over again.
"I can have the trap, I suppose," said Meldon, a couple of minutes later.
Major Kent had got to the shillings column.
"Yes.

But do stop talking." "Why ?" said Meldon.