unattached female

But once his calls attract an unattached female, the two shift into elegance, bowing to each other as if about to do a minuet.

But I regret to say the man in spectacles seemed extremely shy of me; whether it was because the custodian had taken me for his wife, or because I was an apparently unattached female wandering about and drinking coffee by myself contrary to all decent custom, I do not know.

If I were a pretty, unattached female, and was introduced to that man as my travelling companion, I should feel I was in for a good time!

He had been young himself once,—dammit!—and had as keen an eye for a pretty face as any other fellow; but no gentleman could strike up an acquaintance with an unattached female under the very nose of his mother, not to mention the noses of other ladies who were his friends.

"You want an unattached female, unchaperoned, very much at large?"