"Hello! Hello! You're on a busy wire! Exchange----"
"Oh, please, sir, please get off the line and let me have it! This is
very important!"
I mumbled something and hung up the receiver. Then I went back to my
window and gazed across the street again. The hall light was turned
on--the first time I had noticed it alone. The pale blind was down, but
the light--why, a Silhouette at the telephone!