Sublime

His name was Mog: it is not really a name, meaning, as it does, merely ‘a servant’,

‘Léon liked you too. He said you were gallant. That was the word. He said: “She’s a gallant little devil and it’d be a pity if we had to bring her down.”’

He was probably hardly aware of who it was he had in the car. So much for Cinderella. I sat quietly beside him and nibbled the bitter crusts of commonsense.