"It's so annoying to hear the receivers going down whenever you ring anyone up.

They say Mrs.Harmon Andrews insisted that their 'phone should be put in their kitchen just so that she could listen whenever it rang and keep an eye on the dinner at the same time.

Today, when you called me, I distinctly heard that queer clock of the Pyes' striking.

So no doubt Josie or Gertie was listening." "Oh, so that is why you said, 'You've got a new clock at Green Gables, haven't you ?' I couldn't imagine what you meant.

I heard a vicious click as soon as you had spoken.