What do you think of her ?" "She is pretty and docile, but she isn't like a mother of Hatton men.
Look at the pictured women in the corridor upstairs.

They were born to breed and to suckle men of brain and muscles like yourself, John.

The children of little women are apt to be little in some way or other.

Lucy does not look motherly, but Harry is taken up with her.

We must make the best of the match, John, and don't let the trial of their stay here be too long.