What I was thinking of was those famous lines of Sir Walter Scott's.

You recollect the ones I mean, I suppose ?" "No; I don't." "'Oh woman,'" said Meldon, "'in our hours of ease'-- that's now, Major, so far as we're concerned--'uncertain, coy, and hard to please.' That's what Miss King ought to have been, but wasn't.

Nobody can say she was coy about the lobsters.

'When pain and anguish wring the brow.' That's the position in which Simpkins finds himself.

'A ministering angel thou.' That's what Miss King should be if she's what I call a true woman, a womanly woman.