He was still referring to the hencoop, not to any lady.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
And young Benjamin, confirmed by a nod from his father, departed for the mysteriously feminine hencoop.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Nothing could be more unprofitable for the shaken and disturbed, spirits of the people on the Summer Shelter than to stand gazing at the few pieces of wood and the half-submerged hencoop which floated above the spot where the Dunkery Beacon had gone down, or to look out at the three boats which the pirates were vigorously rowing towards the steamer in the distance, and this fact strongly impressed itself upon the practical mind of Mrs. Cliff.
"Mrs. Cliff's Yacht"
Frank R. Stockton