"You call her up on the telephone and find out." "I'll do it," he said, picking up his books and starting away.
He turned back and asked:- "When you're speakin' to a young lady--say, for instance, Miss Lizzie Smith--do you say 'Miss Lizzie'?
or 'Miss Smith' ?" "Say 'Miss Smith,'" the librarian stated authoritatively.

"Say 'Miss Smith' always--until you come to know her better." So it was that Martin Eden solved the problem.
"Come down any time; I'll be at home all afternoon," was Ruth's reply over the telephone to his stammered request as to when he could return the borrowed books.
She met him at the door herself, and her woman's eyes took in immediately the creased trousers and the certain slight but indefinable change in him for the better.

Also, she was struck by his face.

It was almost violent, this health of his, and it seemed to rush out of him and at her in waves of force.

She felt the urge again of the desire to lean toward him for warmth, and marvelled again at the effect his presence produced upon her.