O woman! thou knowest the hour when the goodman of the house will
return, when the heat and burden of the day are past; do not let him at
such time, when he is weary with toil and jaded with discouragement,
find upon his coming to his habitation that the foot which should hasten
to meet him is wandering at a distance, that the soft hand which should
wipe the sweat from his brow is knocking at the door of other
houses.--_Washington Irving._