Macmaster said again:
"I'm sorry old man. I must have interrupted one of your immense calculations."
Tietjens said:
"You haven't. I was only thinking. I'm just as glad you've come. What did you say?"
Macmaster repeated:
"I said the General is in a terrible temper. It's just as well you didn't come up to dinner."
Tietjens said:
"He isn't . . . He isn't in a temper. He's as pleased as punch at not having to have these women up before him."
Macmaster said:
"He says he's got the police scouring the whole county for them, and that you'd better leave by the first train to-morrow."