“Yes.”
“Dr. Blank is there just now, isn't he?”
“Yes, but he's just going away.”
“Will you please ask him to come to the 'phone?”
In a minute her husband's voice was heard asking what was wanted.
“I want to save you a long walk when you get home, John. You're wanted at Henry Smith's down by the Big Four depot.”
“All right. I'll go in to see him when I get there. Much obliged.”
“A mile walk saved there,” mused the doctor's wife, as she joined the two boys, mildly grumbling because they couldn't have their game, and never could have it just when they wanted it. But a few chapters from Ivanhoe read to them by their mother made all serene again.
The Citizens' 'phone was ringing persistently. The doctor's wife had been upstairs and could not get to it in less than no time! But she got there.