"I shall speak to her husband and caution him severely about his wife's conduct," said Granby to me.
I shrank into the background ready to move off directly the oration began.
Granby knocked at the door and it opened.
"I have brought your wife home in a state—" he began.
"Ain't I 'ad a nice young man to take me for a walk while you've been sitting guzzling by the fire?"
"You been taking my missis for a walk," said the indignant husband.
"I am a magistrate and a special constable—" began Granby.
"More shame to you. It's the likes of you 'oo disgraces the upper clarses."
"Shut the door, Bill," said the lady. "Don't lower yourself by talking to 'im. I never could abide a man as smelt o' gin meself."
The door slammed and Granby strode towards me.