I suppose you've no objection to my making myself a few sandwiches before I start?
I may pick up a meal somewhere in the course of the day, but I may not.

It's always well to be on the safe side." "What are you going to do ?" "I'm going to marry Simpkins to Miss King, of course.

I thought we settled that last night." "Don't keep up that joke, J.J.

It was all very well pulling my leg last night, and I didn't mind it a bit; but a thing like that gets to be stale the next morning." "There's no joke that I can see," said Meldon.

"If you read the papers with any sort of attention lately, you'd understand that Mrs.Lorimer is the last woman in the world who can be regarded as comic." "We weren't talking about Mrs.Lorimer." "Yes, we were.