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From OED for the adjectival sense of "booked":

4.a. Of a seat, room, appointment, etc.: engaged or arranged in advance; reserved.

So I think it means the passenger who already has a reservation on the coach. "by this history" refers to the preceding recounting of the story; one of the passengers has a booking, the other two don't.

I didn't see anything in the earlier text that actually describes a passenger having a booking, so perhaps it's meant figuratively to refer to the passenger who was singled out in the preceding text.

From OED for the adjectival sense of "booked":

4.a. Of a seat, room, appointment, etc.: engaged or arranged in advance; reserved.

So I think it means the passenger who already has a reservation on the coach. "by this history" refers to the preceding recounting of the story; one of the passengers has a booking, the other two don't.

From OED for the adjectival sense of "booked":

4.a. Of a seat, room, appointment, etc.: engaged or arranged in advance; reserved.

So I think it means the passenger who already has a reservation on the coach. "by this history" refers to the preceding recounting of the story; one of the passengers has a booking, the other two don't.

I didn't see anything in the earlier text that actually describes a passenger having a booking, so perhaps it's meant figuratively to refer to the passenger who was singled out in the preceding text.

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Barmar
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From OED for the adjectival sense of "booked":

4.a. Of a seat, room, appointment, etc.: engaged or arranged in advance; reserved.

So I think it means the passenger who already has a reservation on the coach. "by this history" refers to the preceding recounting of the story; one of the passengers has a booking, the other two don't.