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"Was that your trouble over the 'phone?" "Yes." "Who told you?" "A reporter 'phoning from Pratt's house apparently." "When did it happen?" "He said an hour ago. That may mean more or less A fiend could not have planned a more inclusive revenge. We will all be involved in it. If he died by poison we may even be accused of killing him.
"I'm not sure that I like to be lent round like that," he objected. "I was sorry for her last night and promised to help her; but this phoning you up to ask your permission puts an entirely erroneous complexion on the affair." "Not erroneous if I understand," she assured him, glancing up with tender frankness. He smiled at the way she cozened him.
"I really am 'Miss Kirby, you know," she explained. "Daddy's only got me and I didn't say a word that wasn't perfectly true. And Mr. Baker, out at Long Farm, always calls me that. Now, I'll have to finish 'phoning." Mrs. Lane and Mrs. Blake were next informed as to the kind of party under way for that afternoon; then came Mrs. Vail, with her Patricia made a break.
"My dear Cleek, such a case; you'll fairly revel in it," he began excitedly. "As I didn't expect to find you out at this hour of the morning, I dispensed with the formality of 'phoning, hopped into the car, and came on at once. Dollops said you'd be back in half a minute, and," looking at his watch, "it's now ten since I arrived." "Sorry to have kept you waiting, Mr.
And it was in respect of this latter demand that Diana found the matrimonial shoe begin to pinch. To her, it seemed as though Adrienne were for ever 'phoning Max to come and see her, and invariably he set everything else aside even Diana herself, if needs be and obeyed her behest. "I can't see why Adrienne wants to consult you so often," Diana protested one day.
When Lewis told him that Crofts was 'phoning wildly about town to find him, and was with the help of another banker supporting the market and taking Sam's stocks as fast as offered, he laughed and giving Lewis instructions regarding the disposal of his monies walked out of the office, again a free man and again seeking the answer to his problem. He made no attempt to answer Sue's wire.
"She'll be worried to death about me, and it would be just like her to start right out to hunt me up. I've simply got to get back and let her know I'm all right." Jack threw back his head and laughed aloud think how long it had been since he really had laughed! "What's the matter with phoning that you're all right?
My feet were numb and it was getting dark. My first day at the snake park and what an experience! Anyway, I crossed the road and walked to a telephone booth. While I was phoning Sujit the electricity went off. Sujit kept trying to explain to me how to come home by another route. How I wished I had my trusty bicycle instead of having to depend on buses and rickshaws!
Dad is 'phoning now for carpenters and his builder. He'll be out in a minute." Out he did come, with a shout of greeting; he, too, had sensed that the real regrets would be with them. "It'll be all right, me lads!" he shouted. "Herring'll be here on the next train, with a bunch o' men, an' I'll git your dad, Gus, too. Must have this building up just like it was in ten days.
"Do you mind my 'phoning from your apartment?" he asked. "Heavens, no!" He stood a moment at the coping, looking over a land of hard little bungalows with abnormally large porches, and new apartment-houses, small, but brave with variegated brick walls and terra-cotta trimmings. Beyond them was a hill with a gouge of yellow clay like a vast wound.
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