Possible Clues:

• Deferred to in an obsequious way
• Bowed and scraped
• Acted obsequiously
• Knelt obsequiously
• Crawled from floor, weight dragged behind
• Was servile, in a way
• Upheld agreement to marry, after wife's demonstrated subservience
• Showed reverence to old wife king strangely married
• Fawned, bootlicked
• Showed deference — or anything due — when following king