Cass Timberlane, A Novel of Husbands and Wives by Sinclair Lewis

Two days after the army of the Prutts had landed and devastated the coast, Judge Stephen Douglas Blackstaff came into Cass's chambers after court.

-"Cass, I have been listening to that banker fellow, Prutt, expiring of sunburn from his blushes of modesty on the telephone. He's a fool, but he is a symptom. A rustle of scandal is beginning to follow you. Son, you and I are both men of the world--from a strictly Calvinistic point of view, of course--but we are also lawyers, and we both know that there must never be any shadow of scandal over the judicial office. Do you care so much for this girl that I've seen you with? Would you rather resign than lose her?"