'Would it suit your views, my dear, to be Mrs.Spooner ?' that's about the long and the short of it.

A clean-made little mare, isn't she ?" This last observation did not refer to Adelaide Palliser, but to an animal standing in Lord Chiltern's stables.

"He bought her from Charlie Dickers for a twenty pound note last April.

The mare hadn't a leg to stand upon.

Charlie had been stagging with her for the last two months, and knocked her all to pieces.