True, but Rumpole got it from H Rider Haggard. "She who must be obeyed" is Ayesha, the white goddess of the novel "She" published in 1887. "She who must be obeyed" was apparently a childhood memory of Haggard's - a rag doll that his nurse would produce to terrify her charges into obedience!
True, but Rumpole got it from H Rider Haggard. "She who must be obeyed" is Ayesha, the white goddess of the novel "She" published in 1887. "She who must be obeyed" was apparently a childhood memory of Haggard's - a rag doll that his nurse would produce to terrify her charges into obedience!
... and I was bothered that Ayesha came back from destruction but couldn't think of the title. Just googled and (shame-face), the follow-up was called (drum roll drum roll) "Ayesha (or The Return of She") 1917.