With the aid of the baluster-rail and Mr Goring's stalwart arm she arrived, panting but triumphant, on the first floor, and paused to take breath. Observing that Lybster was about to throw open the door into the drawing room she stopped him by the simple expedient of grasping his sleeve. Affronted, he gazed at her with much hauteur, and said in freezing accents: "Madam?""Looby!" enunciated Mrs Floore, between gasps. "You wait! Trying to push me in - like a landed salmon!
-Georgette Heyer
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