"How will the South find labor for its businesses? How will Thomas Jefferson find his next mistresses?"
"How DARE you."
"Yet still, people follow like lemmings all your hemming and hawing, while you're hee-hawing with Sally Hemings!"
John's girlfriend broke up with him. Rather than move on like any normal person would do, he decided he couldn't live anymore without her and went the Heming-way.