I suppose you took up some passengers on the way ?" "Oh dear, yes.

We were stopping every two or three minutes to take up or set down passengers; and most of them were women." "Very well; then we may take it that when you arrived at the Mansion House, Mrs.Schallibaum was one of your inside passengers.

It was a rather quaint situation, I think." "Yes, confound her! What a couple of noodles she must have thought us!" "No doubt.

And that is the one consoling feature in the case.

She will have taken us for a pair of absolute greenhorns.