it was often the case that by the time he reached the top floor , binky would be so overcome by the pressures of the journey that he would need to go and have a little lie-down , leaving the chorus girl or chorus boy to cool his or her heels in the waiting room , concerned that the red-faced panting and uncontrolled gasping for breath that binky had been suffering from as they reached the final floors meant that he had been having some kind of early edwardian embolism .