The prisoner of events beyond his control, Procter dallied and equivocated until he was crushed. Before him, Bartolomeo Passerotti and the Cremonese Vincenzo Campi had dallied in genre subjects. The old aristocracy had dallied with the ideas of the Enlightenment and rationalism. Evelyn Barker, by now married with a son, dallied there with his Arab hostess. The position of Shein became very perilous, as the long-awaited reinforcement dallied in Mozhaysk. Due to the cost, however, the Ohio Legislature dallied, and nothing happened for three years.