Dean Ramsay in his _Reminiscences_ remarks:—“Some curious stories are
told of ladies of this class, as connected with the novelties and
excitement of railway travelling. Missing their luggage, or finding that
something has gone wrong about it, often causing very terrible distress,
and might be amusing, were it not to the sufferer so severe a calamity.
I was much entertained with the earnestness of this feeling, and the
expression of it from an old Scottish lady, whose box was not forthcoming
at the station where she was to stop. When urged to be patient, her
indignant exclamation was, “I can bear ony pairtings that may be ca’ed
for in God’s providence; but I canna stan’ pairtin’ frae ma claes.”