"I certainly will hold on.  Get me Gil." The image in the phone was replaced by a moving abstract pattern; a pleasant female voice recorded, said, "Please wait while your call is completed.  This delay is not being charged to your account.  Please relax while-" Soothing music came up and covered the voice; Jubal sat back and looked around.  Anne was waiting, reading, and safely out of the telephone's vision angle.  On his other side the Man from Mars was also out of the telephone's sight pickup and was watching images in stereovision and listening via ear plugs.