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Updated: May 19, 2025

Their questioning me helped them a mighty lot, for I contrived to look as foolish as a yokel when you ask him the way to Nowhere; and all I could tell them was that the lady had come down upon Lord Badington's invitation, and, when she was tired of it, I supposed she would go away again.

Sir Max Pemberton - The Man Who Drove the Car

"I beg you pardon," cried the butler quickly, "I think you should speak of Lady Badington my master left for Paris at eight o'clock this morning." "What!" roared Moss and you could have heard him on the Goodwin Sands "Lord Badington's married her?"

Sir Max Pemberton - The Man Who Drove the Car

"I'm going to Lord Badington's," says he, with a roar of laughter, "why not? I'm going to ask for Miss Phyllis More, and say she's an ode fred of the family. Ha, ha! what do you think of that, Britten? Will I get the modey or won't I? Well, we'll see, my boy so start her up, and be quick about it." I said "Yes, sir," and went round to the front of the car.

Sir Max Pemberton - The Man Who Drove the Car

My business was to keep Moss at Dover as long as might be, and in that I succeeded well enough. Nothing could save Miss Dolly if he went blundering up to Lord Badington's house with his story of what she'd done in London, and how fond certain West End tradesmen had become of her. Given time enough, I believed the pretty little lady would wheedle his lordship to consent to her marriage with Mr.

Sir Max Pemberton - The Man Who Drove the Car

"You see, Britten," says she, "if the car broke down just outside Lord Badington's house, perhaps they would give me shelter for the night; at least, I hope they would, and if they would not, well, it doesn't really matter, and we can go and stop at the hotel at Sandwich.

Sir Max Pemberton - The Man Who Drove the Car

I replied that I did not, but that I believed the lady to be a relative of Lord Badington's. Then he was fair angry. "Lord Badington be d d," he said, speaking through his nose as he always did, "her dabe's Dolly Sid John, and she's the sabe who did us id de winter. I wonder you were such a precious fool as not to recognise her. Do you mean to dell me you didn't dow her?" "What!"

Sir Max Pemberton - The Man Who Drove the Car

I asked her when all was ready. "To Lord Badington's house near Sandwich in Kent." "It's a longish run, and we shan't get there before dark." "Oh," says she, "they don't expect me until quite late; indeed, I don't think Lord Badington himself returns before the last train from town."

Sir Max Pemberton - The Man Who Drove the Car

My road lay by Monkton, down toward Pegwell Bay, and it was just at the entrance to Minster that Dolly made me stop without much warning, and took me into her confidence for the first time. "Britten," says she, "there is something I didn't tell you, but which I think I ought to tell you now. I'm not asked to Lord Badington's house at all."

Sir Max Pemberton - The Man Who Drove the Car

For wasn't it Miss Dolly who had done it, and isn't she but there, that wouldn't be polite to the sex, so I won't write it down. I learned from Biggs that Lord Badington's daughter and stepson were staying in the house with him, and a couple of old gentlemen, who, when they weren't making laws at Westminster, were making fools of themselves on the links at Sandwich.

Sir Max Pemberton - The Man Who Drove the Car

We'll break down right enough, and if you are not breakfasting with his lordship to-morrow morning, don't blame me." She nodded her head; and I could swear the excitement of it set her eyes on fire. Lord Badington's house, you must know, stands overlooking Pegwell Bay, not very far from the golf links, while the Ramsgate Road runs right before its doors.

Sir Max Pemberton - The Man Who Drove the Car