She could be a straight cissy who just had a bunch of plastic surgery done, Tabitha said. A cissy was a 'cisgendered' person, someone who wasn't transsexual, someone happy with being and dressing like whatever gender they were born as.

...her husband may in fact have come as an outside intruder into her already established and maternally and uxorially oriented realm.

That good old blind bibber of Helicon I wot well, came a begging to one of the chiefe citties of Greece, & promiſed them vaſt corpulent volumes of immortallity, if they would beſtowe vpon him but a ſlender outbrothers annuity of muttõ & broth, and a pallet to ſleep on; and with deriſion they reiected him, …

My life is so hectic these days that I don't know whether I'm coming or going.