He did more.

He arose in the seat, applied his thumb to his nose, and vigorously and vivaciously waggled his outspread fingers at Cleggett in a gesture, derisive and inelegant, that is older than the pyramids.

Then he started his machine again and made all speed in the direction of Fairport.
"I say, you, come here!" Cleggett called to the squat young man.

"Can't you see that the lady's fainted ?" The squat young man, thus exhorted, sadly approached.
"Can't you see the lady has fainted ?" repeated Cleggett.
"Skoits often does," said the squat young man, looking over the situation in a detached, judicial manner.

He spoke out of the left corner of his mouth in a hoarse voice, without moving the right side of his face at all, and he seemed to feel that the responsibility of the situation was Cleggett's.
"But, don't you know her?
Didn't you come here with her ?" The squat young man appeared to debate some moral issue inwardly for a moment.