text:  And once when some parish shame was talked of you never would believe it common and blamed the Overseer for bringing it to light--and vindicated the sex by quoting from Pennant how St Werberg lived immaculate with her husband Astardus copying her aunt the great Ethelreda who lived for three years with not less purity with her good man Tonberetus and for twelve with her second husband the pious Prince Egfrid: and the churchwarden left the vestry lifting up his hands and saying--"Poor gentleman!"--and you laughed as if you had never laughed before when you heard it and heartily shook him by the hand to convince him you were in your senses; which action he nevertheless put to the credit of the soundness of your heart and not a bit to that of your head