Dialogue

Harry: It's very nice to be home. Had a good day, Nora?

Nora: Not very good. People kept knocking at the door all the morning. I must have come downstrairs a dozen times to open the door.

Harry: Oh. Who are they all?

Nora: Oh, nobody special. Just the electric-light man to read the meter, the man selling fruit, the postman — all the usual people.... But Harry, I've got something awful to tell you!

Harry: What's that?

Nora: I went to the market to. buy some meat, and I took Rex with me for a walk. And he disappeared!

Harry: What, you mean the dog disappeared while you were buying the meat?

Nora: Yes. One minute I was paying for it, and the next minute I looked round to find that he had gone. Of course we looked all round the butcher's stall, but he wasn't there. I've done nothing but worry. I went to the police station to report it; but they telephoned just before you came in to say they had no news of him.

Harry: Oh, he'll be all right. He's clever enough to come home.

Nora: I'm sure he's been run over. (A knocking at the front door.) Who's that now? Why, it's Mr. Grimble, the butcher!

Grimble: Yes, Madam, I've just called to bring you this dog. I see from the collar that he's yours.

Nora: Oh, that's wonderful! Look, Harry, Mr. Grimble has come specially to bring Rex back!

Grimble: H'm. And to give you this bill for five pounds of best beef your dog ate while he was hidden under my stall!

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