When they were downstairs she heard a footman ask Lady Maud if he should call a hansom for her.

She had taken a hansom to the Embassy, but she walked back to Charles Street because she was angry, and she considered nothing so good for a rage as a stiff walk.

Gilbert left him soon after this, and chartered a hansom in the next street, which carried him back to the City.

"Eleanore," he said, "I have a hansom at the door, and I want you to come down and get into it.

But Dick Stanmore was not in a hansom with Lady Bearwarden.

She got into the hansom without a word.

I missed then, as I miss now, the numberless hansoms of London plying in the streets for hire.

A soft summer-night wind moved the candles under their red shades; and gently as though they rose from afar, and not only from across the top of the high wall before the house, came the rumble of the omnibuses passing farther into the suburbs, and the occasional quick rush of a hansom over the smooth asphalt.

Presently, however, the persistent whistle conjured from round a corner a rakish hansom thatlike the creature between its shafts and the driver on its lofty box, with his face in full bloom and his bleary eyes, his double-breasted box-coat and high hat of oilclothhad doubtless been brisk with young ambition in the golden time of the Nineteen-Naughties.