ABSTRACT
Sometimes it may be doubtful whether we have indirect speech or not: Thack P 898 It wanted but very, very few days before that blisful one when Foker should call Blanche his own.
When with the perfect infinitive: Austen P 237 She tried to compose herself to answer
him with patience, when he should have done I Di D 393 (he said) that the first thing he contemplated doing, when the advertisement should have been the cause of something satisfactory turning up, was to move I Norris 0 594 she hurried off, thinking to return to her post after the policeman should have gone away [more natural: had gone].
