"Hold up."
"Delighted you're coming."
"I say—"
"There's a Miss Sparkes—just crazy about you. You're in luck. Remember the name—Miss Sparkes."
"Story—Bob, come back here!"
"Au reservoir!"
"I can't go—I won't—" But here Dink, leaning over the banister, heard a gleeful laugh float up and the sudden banging of the door.
He rushed back frantically to the room and craned out the window, to see Bob Story sliding around the corner with his fingers spread in a gesture that is never anything but insulting. He closed the window violently and returned to the center of the room.
"Damn!"
"Pooh!" said McCarthy, chuckling with delight.