'I think so, too. Go back to your sister and stay till he is better; I will supply your place.'
This puzzled her, but she could say nothing. I meant 'go' and she went.—There was no delay—I saw her walk by the window almost at once, and overheard the whisper, 'who next?'
I now rang the bell, and Dinah came to the door, saying, before she knocked, the waiter is out, sir, so I answered your ring.
'Do you know where Thomas lives?'
'Yes sir.'
'Then tell him I want him now—'
'Yes sir,' she disappeared.
Oh the benefit of that slam.
In half an hour in walked Thomas.
'Never do you enter my room without knocking. It is a piece of impertinence I will not put up with.'