A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3.
"Hello-girl?"  "Yes, but don't you ask me to explain; it's a new kind of a girl; they don't have them here; one often speaks sharply to them when they are not the least in fault, and he can't get over feeling sorry for it and ashamed of himself in thirteen hundred years, it's such shabby mean conduct and so unprovoked; the fact is, no gentleman ever does it--though I--well, I myself, if I've got to confess--"  "Peradventure she--"  "Never mind her; never mind her; I tell you I couldn't ever explain her so you would understand."