Time: Midnight. A sketch not a hundred miles from the Haymarket.
Bella: "Ah! Fanny! How long have you been Gay?"
A FRESHENER ON THE DOWNS]
[16] Vide Grantley Berkeley's Recollections.
[17] A correspondent wrote to The Times in 1846 complaining that at Ramsgate "the ladies dance polkas in their bathing dresses," and suggesting a stricter supervision of the proprieties by policemen.
[18] George Alexander Lee (1802-51), son of a London publican and pugilist, "tiger" to Lord Barrymore, and subsequently tenor singer, music seller, lessee of Drury Lane, composer and music director at the Strand and Olympic Theatres. Among his many songs and ballads, popular in their day, were "Away, Away to the Mountain's Brow," "The Macgregor's Gathering," and "Come where the Aspens Quiver."
[19] Who's Who first appeared in 1849. In those days it was little more than a bare list of dignitaries and officials. It was not until 1897 that the personal note was sounded and details added which have swelled the slim volume to its present portentous bulk.
[20] "Twankay," constantly used at this time as an equivalent for tea, after the name of the district of Taung Kei in China.