“Yes? Who is it?”
“It’s a mere nobody. It’s only your broker–––”
“What!!”
“Your real-estate broker–––”
“Mr. Shotwell! How absurd of you!”
“Why absurd?”
“Because I don’t think of you merely as a real-estate broker.”
“Then you do sometimes think of me?”
“What power of deduction! What logic! You seem to be in a particularly frivolous frame of mind. Are you?”
“No; I’m in a bad one.”