When he leaved her she started one more to ring Washington. Furious guest in their dressing-gowns were in the passage and banged on her door tolding her to stoping making so much noise so that they can sleep. But she went on telephone. She scrimed that she must get Major Tompkins; it was a meitter of life and dead. At last she got him. Then with concentrated fury, spacing out her words to make them more emphatic : ' Tell - Major - Tompkins - that - I don ' t - want - to speak - to him. '