"Then, when the wheeling seasons brought the fourth year on
and the months waned and the long days came round once more,
then, thanks to my maids – the shameless, reckless creatures –
the suitors caught me in the act, denounced me harshly.
So I finished it off. Against my will. They forced me.
And now I cannot escape a marriage, nor can I contrive
a deft way out."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 19, lines 171-177. Penelope tells how the suitors discovered the weaving/unweaving ruse she employed to delay her remarriage. After cunningly deceiving the suitors for three years, she was betrayed by her disloyal maids.