“Well, come just as quick as you can.”
“All right,” and the listener knew that it might be along toward noon before he got there.
About eleven o'clock the 'phone rang sharply.
“Is this Dr. Blank's house?”
“Yes.”
“Is he there?”
“I saw him pass here about twenty minutes ago. I'm sure he'll be back to the office in a little bit.”
“My land! I've been here three or four times. Looks like I'd ketch him some time.”
“You are at the office then? If you will sit down and wait just a little while, he will be in.”
“I come six miles to see him. I supposed of course he'd be in some time,” grumbled the voice (of course a woman's).