Basil Jaak finished his phone call and walked back to see Krystal Flack and Yetta Astir still waiting there. He couldn't help but smile and asked, "How come you two haven't gone in yet?"
"We were waiting for you!" they said in unison.
Basil Jaak gave a wry smile, "You two go ahead, I'm not going in."
"No way!" They answered with such synchrony, as if they had rehearsed it. Basil couldn't help but look at them, hoping to detect some hint of a conspiracy on their faces, but unfortunately for him, their expressions were calm, too normal to suggest anything amiss.
Krystal Flack said to Basil, "Jaak, you promised to spend the afternoon with me, and now you want to back out?"
"Exactly, exactly! Basil, you can't be a man of empty words!" Yetta Astir quickly took over Krystal's sentence, looking at Basil with disdain.
Basil could not argue with them any further and reluctantly followed them inside.
