Merle sent ahead an email, asking Lumis if it'd be possible to meet sometime in the afternoon. [The phone was dead-useful; he remembers when he got it, Dad had complained that cell phones used to not even HAVE texting. That's utterly lunatic but Merle looked it up and yeah, things used to be a lot more primitive.]
If it's not possible, Merle schedules a meeting at Lumis's earliest convenience.