What if you're an attractive widow, respectable, above reproach, attending a London ball with the height of English society.

This was a respectable widow who provided bed and breakfast for up to four workers on building sites around the town.

I hoped she was feeling slightly disappointed, even if she was a respectable widow determined to be loyal to the memory of her dead husband.

She's a highly respected and highly respectable widow who dotes on your father.

She looked exactly like a Canon's widow, respectable and slightly dull.

Apparently a respectable widow who does good work among the poor and is a regular churchgoer.

But she was a respectable widow, and the husband, alive, had also been respected.

The report had come back: the perfectly respectable widow of a sergeant in the Coldstream Guards, anything but a gossip.

Tomorrow is Sunday, so as a Member of Parliament and a respectable widow, we go to church.