So by dint of shoving, pushing,

Begging, bribing and cajoling,

He induced a taxi-driver,

Most elusive, very lordly,

To unbend enough to take them

(At a price) as far as Sloane Street.

In that hard-won London taxi,

Speeding down dim Piccadilly

On its way to darkened Sloane Street

I will leave my Tiadatha