At last she bade farewell to her friends and came smiling towards him.
"I am so sorry to have kept you all this time!" she exclaimed.

"Lady Anne has just told me the time and I am horrified.

I meant to walk here for an hour and we have been here for two.

Stop that taxi for me, please.

I cannot spare the time even to walk home." He handed her into the cab and whistled for the dogs, who all scrambled in after her.
"Thanks to much for looking after a helpless cripple," he said pleasantly, as they shook hands.