'Will you kindly sit on the horse's head until you are told to get up?
I want the groom to help here,' he said, as soon as he found words tolerable to feminine ears.

A groom was already occupying the position designated, but he rose with alacrity and Mallinson silently took his place and sat there until the harness was loosed.
Fielding's visit, however, had another consequence beyond the upsetting of a gig.

A few days later an epigram was circulating through the constituency.

The squires passed it on with a smack of the tongue; it had a flavour, to their thinking, which was of the town.

The epigram was this: 'Lord Cranston lives a business life of vice, with rare holidays of repentance, but being a dutiful husband he always takes his wife with him on his holidays.' From the squires it descended through the grades of society.