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Nor does it appear inclined toward lengthy conversation -- the voice at the other end . `` No . '' `` Well , when will she be in ? I 've got to take the five o'clock train Mrs. Ellicott -- I 've simply got to -- I may lose my job if I do n't -- but I 've got to talk to her first -- I 've got to explain -- '' `` There can be very little good , I think , in your talking to her Mr. Crowe . She has told me that you both consider the engagement at an end . '' `` But that 's impossible , Mrs. Ellicott -- that 's too absurd '' Oliver felt too much as if he were fighting for life against something invisible to be careful about his words . `` I know we quarrelled last night -- but it was all my fault , I did n't mean anything -- I was going to call her up the first thing this morning but you see , they would n't let me out -- '' Then he stopped with a grim realization of just what it was that he had said .