Mrs.
Henry Lee and Mrs.William Van Dorn passed the links that afternoon.
The two ladies were being driven about Banbridge by Samson Rawdy, the best liveryman in Banbridge, in his best coach, with his two best horses.

The horses, indeed, two fat bays, were considered as rather sacred to fashionable calls, as was the coach, quite a resplendent affair, with very few worn places in the cloth lining.
Banbridge ladies never walked to make fashionable calls.

They had a coach even for calls within a radius of a quarter of a mile, where they could easily have walked, and did walk on any other occasion.

It would have shocked the whole village if a Banbridge woman had gone out in her best array, with her card-case, making calls on foot.
Therefore, in this respect the ladies who were better off in this world's goods often displayed a friendly regard for those who could ill afford the necessary expense of state calls.

Often one would invite another to call with her, defraying all the expenses of the trip, and Mrs.Van Dorn had so invited Mrs.Lee to-day.