"Was it a telegram ?" The girl hesitated.

"I thought you said so.

I mean whatever it was." "Yes, whatever it was, I don't think she saw _that_." "So she just nailed him ?" "She just nailed him." The departing friend was now at the bottom of the little flight of steps; the other was at the top, with a certain thickness of fog.

"And when am I to think of you in your little home ?--next month ?" asked the voice from the top.
"At the very latest.

And when am I to think of you in yours ?" "Oh even sooner.