You gave me half a quid, you did.

Jump in and I'll drive you wherever you want to go, for my fare was only a bob." "I have no more money," replied Godfrey, "for you kept the change." "I wasn't asking for none," said the cabby.

"Hop in and name where it is to be." Godfrey told him and presently was being rattled back to the Charing Cross Hotel, which they reached a little later.

He got out of the cab to go into the hotel when once again the man addressed him.
"I owe you something," he said, and tendered the half-sovereign.
"I have no change," said Godfrey.
"Nor 'ain't I," said the cabman, "and if I had I wouldn't give it you.
I played a dirty trick on you and a dirtier one still when I took your half sov, I did, seeing that I ought to have known that you ere just an obfusticated youngster and no bilk as I called you to them flunkeys.
What you said made me ashamed, though I wouldn't own it before the flunkeys.

So I determined to pay you back if I could, since otherwise I shouldn't have slept well to-night.