She got the house. “Is Dr. Blank there?”
“He's just coming through the gate.”
“Please ask him to come to the 'phone.” After a minute his voice asked what was wanted and Mary delivered her message.
When her husband came home that night, she said, “John, there's one more place you're to go and you're to be there at nine o'clock.”
“The deuce!” he looked at his watch, “ten minutes to nine now. Where is it?”
“I don't know.”
“Don't know?”
“No. I haven't the slightest idea.”
“Why didn't you find out,” he asked, sharply. Mary arched her brows. “Suppose you find out.”
John rang central. With twinkling eyes his wife listened.