"Oh, I'm so sorry! Now, I wouldn't have come to deliver this package
if he hadn't promised to be here at this moment. And he wanted it so
badly--and I can't wait!"
"That's too bad," says Mr. Fall Guy. "But that's all right; you may
leave the package in my care and I'll see that he gets it the first
thing he comes down."
"So kind of you," purrs the operator. "The only difficulty in the way
of that is that I must see him when I deliver it."
Nothing coarse or abrupt, you will see; instead the smooth, purring
round of the wheels that grind artistically and well.
Here the operator begins to bite the under lip and look at the clock
with clouded brows.
"Hm! I can't wait, and he wanted it so much this morning!"