The wife is reading a book "The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark" by Lawana Blackwell, total fiction. Well into the book she exclaims "Oh my God!" I asked her what it was. She then reads aloud from the book. "... but the discussion drifted over to a book circulating throughout England, written by an American named Charles Russell and stating positively that Christ would return in 1874, she excused herself for her room. Such talk was terrifying - it was easier to store in the back of her mind the notion that one day Quetin would make an honest woman of her and she would reconcile with God. The last thing she wanted to think about was facing Him in the near future."
Rarely see them about these days and then they pop up in our romance liturature.