To cut the string of a parcel, however complicated the knot, is something a lady would not do on any account, anxious though she might be to discover the contents. ... At the same time the wrapping paper is smoothed out, carefully folded and put away against the day when it will come in useful. (お茶の水女大)
――ビジュアル英文解釈 PART II 伊藤和夫著 駿台文庫