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`` And I 'll not come down town until she has taken another job and has caught Tetlow . I 'll stop this idiocy of trying to make an impression on a person not worth impressing . What weak vanity -- to be piqued by this girl 's lack of interest ! '' Nevertheless -- he at six o'clock telephoned to the Burroughs ' house that he was detained down town . He sent away his motor , dined alone in the station restaurant in Jersey City . And at half past seven he set out in a cab in search of -- what ? He did not dare answer that interrogation .