Oh, Elise, you've no idea what we go through with that girl! She is a terror! And yet,--well, there is something about her I can't help liking.

For one thing, she's so fond of Fleurette.

If she has hurt her,--well, Azalea would just about kill herself!" A telephone call to the Gales' produced no information as to the whereabouts of Azalea or the baby.

Betty replied that she hadn't seen any one from Wistaria Porch that day, and was thinking of coming over to call.
"Don't come just now," said Patty, half-absently, and then she hung up the receiver without further words.
"Well, I think I'll have to call up Bill," she said, at last.

"You see, he's fearfully busy today, with a specially important matter, and he probably won't be in his own office, anyway.