It's just as well Ruth did not hear that rigmarole.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
Without looking around, with her hands in her lap, an absent look in her eyes, the girl began in a husky contralto voice: "Bounded on the north-" and went through the whole rigmarole in the same way, careless, but certain.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
Folks may talk some about me and Hettie not living together, but I can't put up with all that rigmarole over there.
"Dixie Hart"
Will N. Harben