"Miss Judd, this is Jerome Paxton. I hope you had not gone to bed. Oh, that is good. I am just back from Florida and I have to ask a very great favour of you. If I come to your house in ten minutes, will you see me, so that I may explain? Thanks."
He hung up the receiver.
"Now, you get to bed. I'll be back here in twenty minutes with Miss Judd, who will spend the night with you."
"Can't you stay, too, Jerry?"
He found Jane waiting in the lower hall for him. She was as calm and impersonal as if this were a usual occasion. He explained the situation.
"It's an outrage to ask you to do it, but will you come?"
"Certainly. Wait until I get some things, and a hat."
Presently they were on the way in a taxi. He inquired the news of the quarter. Bobs and the Chatfields had gone to Philadelphia for a month, possibly longer.
"I hope this girl will not prove a nuisance," he said, as they came to their destination.