No situation was forlorner![15]
Yet, notwithstanding folks might scout it,
It suited qualmish Spinsters, who fell sick,
And didn’t wish the world to know about it.
Here many a single gentlewoman came,
Pro tempore,—full tender of her fame!
Who, for a while, took leave of friends in town;—
“Business, forsooth! to Yorkshire call’d her down,
Too weighty to be settle’d by Attorney!”—
And, in a month’s, or six weeks’ time, came back!