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`` So do I , '' Shelby confessed . `` I wish we could see Mr. Crane alone , first . '' `` We must do that , of course . It 's only eight o'clock , and we 're ready to start now . Come ahead . '' They sent their luggage to their homes and took a taxi for the Crane town house , on upper Park Avenue . By good fortune , Mr. Crane was at home and received them in his library .