To time and a wife it is no disgrace for a man to bend.

It is the form of submission of the bulrush to the wind, of courtesy in the cavalier to a lady.
'Oh, here you are, Rowsley,' Lady Charlotte exclaimed at the drawing room door.

'Well, and I don't like those Louis Quinze cabinets; and that modern French mantelpiece clock is hideous.

You seem to furnish in downright contempt of the women you invite to sit in the room.

Lord help the wretched woman playing hostess in such a pinchbeck bric-a-brac shop, if there were one! She 's spared, at all events.' He stepped at slow march to one of the five windows.