Looking For A Precedent

"Wow! Mui-der!" said the young lady from New York to her beautif ui Bostou friend. "Great goodness, Clara, what are you standing there like a mnmmy 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 have done in a similar einergency. "