Grover spoke then.
"Mr.Babbitt," he suggested, "don't you think you had better stay a moment?
Mr.Winslow seems to wish it." Babbitt reached for the handle of the door, but Grover's hand was lightly laid on his shoulder.
"Do stay, Mr.Babbitt," begged the Major, sweetly.

"To oblige me, you know." Phineas swore with such vehemence that the oath might have been heard across the road.

What he might have said thereafter is a question.

At that moment his attention was caught by something which Jed Winslow had in his hands and he stayed to stare at it.
The something was a bundle of crumpled banknotes..