" I never drive when I can ride,” said his lordship indifferently.
“I make no doubt at all that had I been Mary Challoner you would have been glad enough to have borne me company!”

The Marquis was snuffing one of the candles, but he looked up at that, and there was a glint in his eye.

“That, my dear, is quite another matter,” he said. "

― Georgette Heyer , Devil's Cub (Alastair-Audley, #2)