"Hello!"
"Is it the butcher?"
"Yes."
"Send me two pounds of fillet of beef, and a leg of mutton, by twelve o'clock."
"Very good! Is that all?"
"Yes."
"All right."
Upon this the lady rings again.
"Hello!" from central office, where this kind of thing goes on all day long.
"Send me 1267" (the fruiterer).