"I've taken it down," said Ben.
"Voice, musical," Pat went on. "Laugh, delicious."
Ben looked away as she affected to write.
"Is that essential?" she asked.
"Absolutely," said Pat. "Must be in business," he went on. "No idle woman need apply. This kind of business would be all right."
"Do you mean she is to continue in business when she is married?" Ben asked.
"I should leave that to her," said Pat; "but I hope so."
"Aren't you rather narrowing it down?" Ben asked. "Making it rather difficult for yourself?"
"I was trying to make it more easy for 'The Beck and Call,'" he said. "If the essentials are so explicitly stated, so little time need be wasted on the search."
"You have been wonderfully explicit," said Ben. "But what about yourself? The girl—if she is found—will naturally want to know something about her husband, who at present, of course, is a stranger to her. What is she to be told?"