Besides, there's the Phoenix at home, AND the carpet.

I votes we call a four-wheeled cabman.' A four-wheeled cabman was called--his cab was one of the old-fashioned kind with straw in the bottom--and he was asked by Anthea to drive them very carefully to their address.

This he did, and the price he asked for doing so was exactly the value of the gold coin grandpapa had given Cyril for Christmas.

This cast a gloom; but Cyril would never have stooped to argue about a cab-fare, for fear the cabman should think he was not accustomed to take cabs whenever he wanted them.

For a reason that was something like this he told the cabman to put the luggage on the steps, and waited till the wheels of the growler had grittily retired before he rang the bell.
'You see,' he said, with his hand on the handle, 'we don't want cook and Eliza asking us before HIM how it is we've come home alone, as if we were babies.' Here he rang the bell; and the moment its answering clang was heard, every one felt that it would be some time before that bell was answered.
The sound of a bell is quite different, somehow, when there is anyone inside the house who hears it.