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Paul spoke briefly , with his mouth full of toast : `` If you were more regular in the way you run the house , and insisted on never varying the -- '' `` But I was afraid you would be late , '' said Lydia . It was the daily terror of her life . `` I _ am _ late now , '' he told her , with his good-humored insistence on facts . `` I 've missed the 7:40 , and I 've just time to catch the next one if I hurry . Do you happen to know , dear , where I put that catalogue from Elberstrom and Company ? The big red book with the picture of a dynamo on the cover . I was looking over it last night , and Heaven knows where I may have dropped it . ''