"I thought you knew – the manager was awfully stuffy. I never thought I"d hear the last about it, you"d have thought I"d commited some crime, carting me off like that. I was distraught, darling, and you ought to have heard what the Brigadier"s wife called me."
"Never mind what the manager said."
"You should have been there – where were you. I was lost without you."
"Yes, yes, but what about Jyp? Did you do what I told you?"
A coy laugh floated down the phone. "But darling, you know I always do what you tell me."
Morris tried to keep a note of eagerness out of his voice. "Did you see him after I left you?"
"Of course, silly man. He called on me thinking it was the Gents and I persuaded him to stay."
"And then? What happened?" His voice sharpened."You didn"t let him get away?"
A husk
