You might have stopped it yesterday, but you're too late now.
I'm sorry for poor Simpkins myself.

I thought him a decent enough sort of man." "He's a cad." "There you are again.

In one breath you try to stop me, and in the very next breath you urge me strongly to go on.

Which do you mean?
Not that it matters, for the thing is as good as done now.

Still you ought to try and cultivate the habit of definitely making up your mind, and then sticking to it.