“Hong Kongs—we can’t get them at seventy-four. Oh, half-a-minute” (the half-a-minute passes). “Are you there?”
“Yes, but you are talking to the wrong man.”
“We can get you Hong Kongs at seventy-four and seven-eights.”
“Bother Hong Kongs, and you too. I tell you, you are talking to the wrong man. I’ve told you once.”
“Once what?”
“Why, that I am the wrong man—I mean that you are talking to the wrong man.”
“Who are you?”
“Eight-one-nine, Jones.”
“Oh, aren’t you one-nine-eight?”
“No.”