Mary Todd Lincoln's faux pas (plural), worse, and much worse

[Eva Elisabeth]

Thanks, David, but that was not a reply to any of my three questions (1.-3.) on your argumentation. (I did not ask whether you considered the chattering disrespectful or not. That I indeed had understood from the beginning, and I, too, stated my opinion upon that.)
One last remark: If, as you believe, Clara's and the Marquis' account diverge - and since it was you who brought up the Marquis' account, I assume you tend to rather believe him than Clara, or cast doubts on both reliability - you have weakened your own (and Mr. Burlingame's) point of the ladies chattering as there's only one newspaper report left written two years later from so far unknown sources. BTW, did you notice that none of Mr. Burlingame's sources actually seemed to contain that the ladies drowned out the President?