B4

She sat in the chair, just staring at the telephone. Would he call her? He had promised to, and he had seemed like the sort of person who would keep his promises, but you never knew.

 STARE

B5

Already it was eleven o’clock in the morning and the phone hadn’t rung.

 BE

B6

She knew that it was working because she had picked it up several times to check.

 WORK

B7

She began to get impatient. He had been so nice to her when they had met in the library, helping to find the book she needed for her research.

 HELP

B8

Usually she didn’t give her telephone number to people she had just met, but she had felt certain that she was doing the right thing in this case.

 NOT GIVE

B9

Twelve o’clock. Still silence. She had been waiting for over four hours now. Angrily, she stood up, put on her coat and left the flat, slamming the door behind her.

 WAIT

B10

As she got out of the lift on the ground floor the telephone in her flat began to ring. She did not hear it.

 BEGIN