After what you have just said to me," she replied firmly, "I refuse my signature until I have read every line in that parchment from the first word to the last.
Can the business of the signature be put off till to-morrow--Yes or No?
Let the signature wait till to-morrow--let it wait till you come back.
The matter of the signature can wait till to- morrow.
His anxiety about the secret journey which he was to take that day, revived by the Count's words, was now evidently disputing possession of his mind with his anxiety to obtain Laura's signature.
If you don't give me your signature when I come back to-morrow
I wish I had given him my signature, for your sake.
Putting what she knew of her husband's embarrassments and what I had heard of his conversation with the lawyer together, we arrived necessarily at the conclusion that the parchment in the library had been drawn up for the purpose of borrowing money, and that Laura's signature was absolutely necessary to fit it for the attainment of Sir Percival's object.
Under these circumstances, the one chance for us when to-morrow came was to be provided with an objection to giving the signature, which might rest on sufficiently firm commercial or legal grounds to shake Sir Percival's resolution, and to make him suspect that we two women understood the laws and obligations of business as well as himself.
Then, it is said, he shuddered, as if that
signature had granted away his salvation.
There is no need to sign it," said Don Quixote, "but merely to put my flourish, which is the same as a
signature, and enough for three asses, or even three hundred.
