Ford said the underlying enabler would be digital ticketing, claiming that passengers will want touch-free travel.

The witnesses for the day; two Inspector plods, the peeler who’d been patrolling Baker’s Row when informed of the murder; Charles Cross, the carman who’d done the telling after discovering Nichols dead; William Nichols, the slag’s grieving husband, and others.

I asked the doctor if I was long for this world (likely to live a long time)

But there's always this aggrieved air that I'm some sort of ghastly Harvey Nichols-obsessed lady who lunches while he earns all the money.