“Go on, Tom!”

“Just let me study a moment — just a moment. Oh, yes — you said you believed the door was open.”

“As I’m sitting here, I did!

Didn’t I, Mary! Go on!”

“And then — and then — well I won’t be certain, but it seems like as if you made Sid go and — and — ”

“Well? Well? What did I make him do, Tom? What did I make him do?”

“You made him — you — Oh, you made him shut it.”

“Well, for the land’s sake! I never heard the beat of that in all my days! Don’t tell me there ain’t