“I wonder if he’s ever rung her up,” he said brokenly.
Virginia, who believed in the telephone, stiffened.
“I shouldn’t be surprised,” she said. “Out of kindness of heart.”
“And when she came to the telephone told her he couldn’t sleep
until——”
“Do you remember your reply?” said Virginia in a shaking voice.
Roger shrugged his shoulders.
“To keep you awake,” he said, “would have been uncharitable.”