Come out of the Kitchen! by Alice Duer Miller

THERE was no doubt whatsoever in the mind of the spectator that this caress, provoked or unprovoked, was not agreeable to its recipient. The young man was large and heavy and she was minute and probably weak, but the violence of her recoil was sufficient to free her within a second.

"Her strength," thought Tucker, "was as the strength of ten," and he hoped it was for the reason alleged by the poet.