“John, you have nearly scared me to death,” she says, sitting up in bed, half laughing and half crying. “But I heard you tell that man you were coming out there.”
“Yes. I told him I was.”
“Well, why didn't you go?”
“I did go.”
“You don't mean to tell me you have been a mile and back in five minutes.”
The doctor flashed on the light and looked at his watch,—“Just an hour since I left home,” he said. Mary gasped. “Well, it only proves how soundly I can sleep when I get a chance,” she said.
Ting-a-ling-ling-ling. Ting-a-ling-ling-ling.
It is the office ring but Mary hurries at once to answer it.
“Is this Dr. Blank's office?”