“Oh! tonight! Let me see. Ah! I just glanced at my watch, saw that I had already been out just three minutes over the precise half-hour, decided there was not time to go round, turned⁠—”

“You always do.”

He looked at me⁠—reflected. “Perhaps I do, now I come to think of it. But what was it you wanted to speak to me about?”

“Why, this!”

“This?”

“Yes. Why do you do it? Every night you come making a noise⁠—”

“Making a noise?”

“Like this”⁠—I imitated his buzzing noise.