LORD PETER DODGES WITH MR. BLUNDELL AND PASSES HIM"Dodging" is taking a retrograde movement, or moving a place backwards out of the ordinary hunting course.... She will be seen to dodge with a bell, and pass a bell alternately throughout her whole work.
Troyte.
"Well now, ma'am," said Superintendent Blundell.
"Well, officer?" retorted Mrs. Gates.
It is said, I do not know with how much reason, that the plain bobby considers "officer" a more complimentary form of address than "my man," or even "constable"; while some people, of the Disraelian school of thought, affirm that an unmerited "Sergeant" is not taken amiss. But when a highly-refined lady, with a grey glacé gown and a grey glacé eye, addresses a full-blown Superintendent in plain clothes as "officer," the effect is not soothing,
