" He does not, if you please, consider me a fit and proper person to have charge of Lucilla, and doesn’t scruple to say so! I’m told it is always so with loose- screws: they become downright prudes where the females of their own families are concerned! I imagine that must be because they know too much about the wiles of seducers– from their own experiences! "

― Georgette Heyer , Lady of Quality