I do not yet know what the other Ministers' wives are going to do, but I do know that I think Milton quite right in saying: "The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband bides."
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
Rhoda shut her eyes and tried to pray, that when the quivering, groaning planks should part or sink, and drop her out of life, her soul should stand at its seemliest in her Maker's sight.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
151. "The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays."
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown