Alarmed, Cassie glanced at the hackney driver, but the sour old man seemed interested only in taking a nip from his flask.

Oh, why had she told the hackney driver to leave?

The guard looked even more incredulous than the hackney driver.

The hackney driver shook his head again.

Kim could think of one, or perhaps two, hackney drivers in London who might manage such a feat if they were lucky.

This has been a summer in which the time-honored hackney drivers have needed a belt or two.

She gave the hackney driver the address and told him to wait, since the coach now held her trunk.

The hackney driver tapped his hat brim with his whip, and both carriages clattered on into the night.

Thank heavens you were able to make one of the hackney drivers stop.

She recalled the hackney driver asking her if she was daft when she'd told him where she wanted to go, remembered how quickly he had departed.