A Rolling Stone by B. M. Croker

Mrs. Hogben had lost no time in giving her lodger explicit instructions as to what was expected of him in Ottinge! Her lecture assumed a negative form. He was not to take out any one's girl, or there'd be trouble; he was not to talk too much politics, or there'd be more trouble; he was not to drink and get fuddled and fighting, or there was the Bench and a fine; as to amusement, there was cricket, Mrs. Topham's Library, and the Drum Inn, for his evenings.

The good woman said to herself, "The motor is always washed and put away by six o'clock, and if he comes here, he must either sit in his room or in the kitchen, and _she_ wasn't a-goin' to have that blocked up with young girls, and never a chair for herself and her own friends."