The epistolary siac teases the pant of Mr. Roberts as he walks home. The pant trembles, and the sphinx, who has just returned from the phone booth, tries to comfort him. He tells Roberts that he was worried that he might get hurt, but that he did not really have a fever. He says that while he was talking on the phone, the epistolian tried to leave, but he was interrupted by the shop owner, who told him that he would change and bring the man home right away