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`` I 've got to be out of it . '' The next day he went down town for only two or three hours in the afternoon . But he did not go near the Board of Trade building . He talked over a few business matters with the manager of his real estate office , wrote an unimportant letter or two , signed a few orders , was back at home by five o'clock , and in the evening took Laura , Page , and Landry Court to the theatre . After breakfast the next morning , when he had read his paper , he got up , and , thrusting his hands in his pockets , looked across the table at his wife . `` Well , '' he said . `` Now what 'll we do ? ''