The weight, the laws of gravitation;

Prates law like any Romilly,

And ends with a fine homily;

Until, at last, I grieve to say,

He gets the poor girl turn'd away.

Still 'tis not oft that female tactics

Are set aside by mathematics;

Nor left to busy-bodies whether

A story fails or hangs together.

So then, as Kitchener would say,