The Biography of William Wrightson, 2nd Viscount Dorchester by Julian Fellowes

Published: Nov. 22, 2011, 2:41 p.m.

b"Their wretched wives were both obliged to see husband and brother at war, a predicament cruelly underlined by Cumnor's calling out, on seeing his brother-in-law in the thick of the fighting, 'There goes my Lord Dorchester. Kill him now, I beg you, for I may not. Methinks my wife would mislike it.'"