Or when she was back here and they'd be expecting word anyway?

He'll be expecting word from me, that rat will.

Some nights, he seemed resigned to playing elsewhere, others he looked like he expected word any moment.

'Telling him to expect word from this - what's your name, girl?'

"I expect word from my contacts in London any day."

"We expect word from the Tomed in less than half an hour."

"Then I will expect him-or word that he cannot meet me-at my door, in an hour or a little more."

"So when do you expect word on this last person?"

What's more, I'm expecting word from the telephone company.

"When you expecting word from your Zeep leg man?"