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`` And you can stay to dinner . '' `` I 'll take the dinner end of the invitation , '' was the reply . `` I 've got to go over to Menaggio to see about some papers to be signed . If I can make the three o'clock boat in returning , you 'll see me at tea . Dinner at all events . I 'm off . '' `` Do you mean to stand there and tell me that you have important business ? ''