"You'll have to withdraw and apologise."
"I can't make out what you're saying."
"It will end in your eating humble-pie. Can you hear that?"
"I can hear that you are in a bearish temper."
"I've reason to be. If a man had written what you have I should punch his head."
"Say that again!"
"I say, if a stranger of the kickable sex had told such a pack of infernal——"
Click!
Lady Hannah hung up the receiver, blew a contemptuous kiss into the gape of the celluloid mouthpiece, and turned to go. There was another ring-up as she reached the door.
"Hallo. Are you the Convalescent Hospital?"