"Probably if I wait and give 'em a chance they'll come in here and have apoplexy instead," he said.

"That seems to be the fashionable disease this afternoon.

They won't stay out there and be lonesome; they'll come in here where it's private and there's a crowd.

Eh?
Yes, here they come." But the newest visitor did not come, like the others, uninvited into the "private" room.

Instead he knocked on its door.