I suppose he was writing a letter, but there was no need of doing this at night, as the mail would not go out for several days, and there would be plenty of time to write in the daytime.

He hadn't done anything but lounge about for two or three days.

Perhaps he came up here to write because he had nothing else to do.
There was only one table, and I couldn't write if I had wanted to, so I opened my trunk and began to put some of my things in order.

We had arranged, before we had fallen out, that we should go home on the next steamer, and Mr.and Mrs.Chipperton were going too.

We had been in Nassau nearly a month, and had seen about as much as was to be seen--in an ordinary way.