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Mrs. Stevenson explains her health condition to the operator because she wants the operator to dial her husband's office for her and she needs a reason for her frantic desire to get through to him.
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<span>"Sneaking around" would be a better synonym as it means to pry into others affairs or in a fashion not overt but with an eye to gathering information which can be used against the person being searched later on.</span>