"It's no good my pretending I don't want to go to the theatre when I do," she remarked; "so why not say so? Where shall we go?"
"Anywhere you please."
"When?"
"To-night, if you like."
Miss Jennings considered.
"I must see if my sister's to be at home," she said. "There are just two of us, and one always stays in of an evening with mother. May I use the telephone? My sister is with Goswell Brothers, in Finsbury Circus."
"Certainly," said Philip.
Miss Jennings sat down at the roll-top desk and took the receiver off the hook. She flatly declined to accept the assurance of the operator at the exchange that the number she required,—
(1) was out of order;
(2) was engaged;