In her conversations with Mr Gentleman, her innocence begins to seem willed, even wry.
She settled on the banquette, next to the gentleman, her odoriferous container of linguine and clam sauce leaking between them.
So, too, was Cowles, off to England to take up residence at Albany, accompanied, appropriately, by a true gentleman, her new husband, Tom Montague Meyer.
In one of his canvases, for instance, an elegant couple is engaged in a music lesson – but is the gentleman her tutor, a suitor, or her lover?
She has published several inconsistent accounts of her life, in which Ward has been variously represented as a "gentleman", her truest love, a Soviet spy, and a traitor ranking alongside Philby, Burgess and Maclean.
What I minded was that there were gentlemen around her who supplied her with wine and other things, so when she finally did get called to the set, she couldn't function very well... and she crumbled".
Boarding a bus, a young lady reports, she tripped on the steps and a gallant old gentleman caught her arm, held her up, and helped her aboard.
By William Shawn, John Brooks, and Harold Ross The New Yorker, November 25 , 1933P. 16 Boarding a bus, a young lady reports, she tripped on the steps and a gallant old gentleman caught her arm, held her up, and helped her aboard.
This, rather than the ambition of entertaining a posterity of urbane gentlemen, was her motive force in writing….
