"I do wish you'd look at the thing right!" Mary V changed her tactics, relying now upon intimidation.

"I shall begin to look for you in about an hour," she said sweetly.

"I shall keep on looking till you come, or till it gets too dark.

If you care anything about me, Johnny, you'll be here.

I'll have dinner all ready, so you needn't wait to eat." Then she hung up.
Johnny rattled the hook impatiently, called hello with irritated insistence, and finally succeeded in raising Central's impersonal: "Number, please ?" Whereupon he flung himself angrily out of the booth.
"Do you want to pay at this end ?" The girl at the desk looked up at him with a gleam of curiosity.