Scally
excerpt from the book.."BETTERSEA trem? Right, miss!" My wife, who has been married longenough to feel deeply gratified at being mistaken for a maiden lady,smiled seraphically at the conductor, and allowed herself to be hoistedup the steps of the majestic vehicle provided by a paternal countycouncil to convey passengers--at a loss to the ratepayers, Iunderstand--from the Embankment to Battersea.Presently we ground our way round a curve and began to cross WestminsterBridge. The conductor, whose innate cockney bonhomie his high officialposition had failed to eradicate, presented himself before us andcollected our fares.
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