Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?
Samson "could not withstand the corrosive influence of three or four days of weeping." [Note: Ibid., p. 166.] 