He tries in vain to remember a riddle beginning, "Kitty, a fair but frozen 
He tries in vain to remember a riddle beginning, "Kitty, a fair but frozen maid." At a party, he encourages a guest to try an egg soft-boiled by his servant Serle after entreating the company to limit themselves, as he does, to a small basin of thin gruel. He worries over bothering James to take him and his younger daughter to Randall's to visit his daughters' former governess, the former Miss Taylor, and her husband Mr. Weston. His circle of acquaintances includes Mrs. and Miss Bates, and the proprietor of Donwell Abbey, who moves in with him to avoid separating him from his beloved daughter. FTP, name this hypochondriac neighbor of Mr. Knightley in a novel by Jane Austen who loves his daughter Emma.
He tries in vain to remember a riddle beginning, "Kitty, a fair but frozen maid."
Mr. {Woodhouse}