"Is it the question of time? I thought we had made that clear? You didn't undertake to finish by the twenty-seventh."
"The question is whether I should have undertaken it at all."
"It might have been as well to have answered that question first."
"I couldn't answer it. There were so many things—"
"Do you want a longer time in town?"
"I want a longer time here, to think it over, to make up my mind whether I can go on—"
"And in the meanwhile?"
"The work goes on just the same."
"And if you decide that you can't continue it?"
"I should find a substitute."