'Reg'lar scamp,' replied Bouncey, vexed at missing his stroke.
'Dare say you know nothing about him,' snapped her ladyship.
'Don't I?' replied Bouncey complacently; adding, 'that's all you know.'
'He'll whop her, to a certainty,' observed Seedeybuck.
'What makes you think that?' asked her ladyship.
'Oh—ha—hem—haw—why, because he whopped his poor horse—whopped him over the ears. Whop his horse, whop his wife; whop his wife, whop his horse. Reg'lar Rule-of-three sum.'
'Make her a bad husband, I dare say,' observed Bob Spangles, who was rather smitten with Lucy himself.
'Never mind; a bad husband's a deal better than none, Bob,' replied Lady Scattercash, determined not to be put out of conceit of her man.
'He, he, he!—haw, haw, haw!—ho, ho, ho! Well done you!' laughed several.