If Mr. Podsnap, pulling up his shirt-collar, could only have heard himself called “that fellow” in a certain short dialogue, which passed between Mr. and Mrs. Lammle in their opposite corners of their little carriage, rolling home!

“Sophronia, are you awake?”

“Am I likely to be asleep, sir?”

“Very likely, I should think, after that fellow’s company. Attend to what I am going to say.”

“I have attended to what you have already said, have I not? What else have I been doing all tonight.”