gentlewoman

She thinks it matters that Chenery engaged with fans as “a perfect gentlewoman.”

“I support repealing these tax credits,” he replied, offering only the noncommittal promise to “continue to work with the gentlewoman from Virginia, just like we will with all members.”

One of his stories is about a Southern gentlewoman who keeps her dead fiance’s corpse in her bed.

As usually performed, it is the distasteful tale of a callow playboy named Bertram who treats the friend who loves him — Helen, a young “gentlewoman” of his mother’s household — as a discardable childhood toy.

She is almost always busy taking care of Mrs. Forrest, a very plump gentlewoman who hasn’t figured out yet that life in James Town will be a lot harder than life in England.