‘I—well, I didn’t intend to; it only happened so.’
‘How did it happen so?’
‘Because I was at the Post Office, and I remembered that I had left a cab waiting here, and so, to stop the expense, I sent another cab to—to——’
‘To what?’
‘Well, I don’t remember now, but I think the new cab was to have the hotel pay the old cab, and send it away.’
‘What good would that do?’
‘What good would it do? It would stop the expense, wouldn’t it?’
‘By putting the new cab in its place to continue the expense?’
I didn’t say anything.
‘Why didn’t you have the new cab come back for you?’