Sentence:  &lsquo;[…] I remember a <WSD>lady</WSD> coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]'. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.