Word: riderhood
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...empty bottles, broken glasses, upturned chairs, errant garments, and every sort of unattractive human debris." The revelers emerge the worse for wear. Gerard Hernshaw, the acknowledged leader of this elite band, has learned by phone that his ill father has died overnight. Gerard's oldest and closest friends, Jenkin Riderhood and Duncan Cambus, are drunk and disoriented. Although Duncan seldom needs a reason for such a condition, in the aftermath of this midsummer night's madness he can offer a good one. The dance has exposed his wife Jean to another meeting with a classmate, the Scottish-born David Crimond...
...Charles Dickens, in chapter 3, vol. 2 of Our Mutual Friend asks the same question. Rogue Riderhood, apparently drowned, is in the hands of the physicians. Dickens comments...
...gone for good, Mr. Riderhood, it would be something to know where you are hiding at present. This flabby lump of mortality that we work so hard at with such patient perseverance, yields no sign of you. If you are gone for good, Rogue, it is very solemn, and if you are coming back, it is hardly less so. Nay, in the suspense and mystery of the latter question, involving that of where you may be now, there is a solemnity even added to that of death, making us who are in attendance alike afraid to look...
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