Interference, Volume II by B. M. Croker

"He is a fool who thinks, by force or skill, / To turn the current of a woman's will. " / -- S. TUKE.

The following morning, when the first press of business was over, and when she had taken counsel with her sons, and had locked Lizzie into her room, Mrs. Maccabe put on her shawl (she always wore her bonnet except in bed) and stalked up the street, and out to Bridgetstown. She had never visited it before, and her tall commanding figure in the doorway, gave Sara, the parlour maid, what she subsequently described as a "turn. " Doubtless she gave Mrs. Malone a turn also, for she firmly believed that she had come for the balance of her bill -- a large balance -- and tremulously hinted as much.