“Yes, but people ought to do their own talking and not bother us so much.”
“I know,” said Mary gently, “but this is a mother badly frightened about her baby—she did not think what she was doing and left the 'phone without giving me her name.”
Central tried with such good result that Mary was soon in possession of the name and number. She telephoned that she would send the doctor down as soon as she could find him, which she thought would be in a few minutes. Then she telephoned a house where he had been for several days making evening visits.
“Is Dr. Blank there?”
“He was here. He's just gone.”
“Is he too far away for you to call him?”
“Run and see, Tommy.”
Silence. Then, “Yes, he's got too far to hear. I'm sorry.”
“Very well. Thank you.”
“Let me see,” she meditated, “yes, I think he goes there.”