Looking For A Precedent

"Wow! Murder!" said the young lady from New York to her beautiful Boston friend. "Great goodness, Clara, what are you standing there like a mummy for when there's a mouse right under you?"

"Hush," said Clara, calming herself by a great effort, "I am trying to recollect what one of Ibsen's heroines would hav done in a similar emergency." - Chicago Record.