"Very well," she answered. "And if you do not knock?"
He handed her a slip of paper.
"You have a telephone in your room," he said. "Ring up the number you will find there, and simply repeat the words which I have written."
"Is that all?" she asked.
"That is all."
"Louis," she said,—then she pointed in my direction,—"may I not go in just for one minute?"
"No!" he answered. "It is not wise."
"It seems unkind," she said, "to keep away from him all this time if he is ill."
"I did not know that you had so much affection for him!" Louis remarked.
"Why not?" she answered. "He was always kind to me, in his way."