<h2><SPAN name="IN_A_HANSOM" id="IN_A_HANSOM"></SPAN><i>IN A HANSOM.</i></h2>
<div class="sidenote">Guarding the lady’s dress.</div>
<p class="nind"><span class="smcap">In</span> handing a lady into a hansom care must be taken to protect her dress
from the muddy wheel. The gentleman asks if she would like the glasses
down, and conveys her instructions to the driver, then raises his hat as
she drives away.</p>
<div class="sidenote">When accompanying the lady.</div>
<p>Should he be accompanying her in the hansom, she seats herself at the
nearest side to the pavement, so that when he enters he will not have to
go round a corner, as it were. In this case he gives the cabman
instructions across the roof of the cab, and if his companion wishes the
glasses to be lowered, he asks for them through the trap-door at the top
of the cab. He must never smoke when the glasses are let down—to do so
would render the atmosphere unbearable to almost any woman. But if he
knows his partner in the drive sufficiently well, he can ask permission
to smoke, should the glasses not be required.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_032" id="page_032"></SPAN>{32}</span></p>
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