It seemed to be the most sensible thing he had said.

Give Gedge enough rope and he would hang himself.

So we parted.
I have said before that when I want to shew how independent I am of everybody I drive abroad in my donkey carriage.

But there are times when I have to be dependent on Marigold for carrying me into the houses I enter; on these helpless occasions I am driven about by Marigold in a little two-seater car.

That is how I visited Wellings Park and that is how I set off a day or two later to call on Mrs.Boyce.
As she took little interest in anything foreign to her own inside, she was not to most people an exhilarating companion.