Both Uses of
postpone
in
The Phantom of the Opera
- Postponing his usual visit to Sorelli for a few minutes, the count followed his brother down the passage that led to Daae's dressing-room and saw that it had never been so crammed as on that evening, when the whole house seemed excited by her success and also by her fainting fit.†
Chpt 2postponing = delaying until a later time
- Richard and Moncharmin had locked themselves with an object which the reader does not yet know, but which it is my duty, as an historian, to reveal without further postponement.†
Chpt 16 *postponement = the act of delaying until a later time
Definition:
delay until a later time