The knight rode a white charger.

As someone taught me many, many years ago, businesses aren't run by CXO-level executives but by the people on the front lines working with customers or supporting the people who do.

...to strike down Detroit's federal court order to bus students across school district lines for the purpose of desegregation and therefore nullify many busing programs throughout the country.

The references to the lady's long-standing affection for her loyal, high-born servant girl provide a succinct intimation that the lady herself is not a wholly repellent character.