Lady is Planter's wife. Lady is a young, southern woman when Planter meets her who has just lost the love of her life. Lady marries Planter because she feels she has little choice. They make a good life together and have three beautiful children. However, they also lose three sons, sons that Cynara later learns her mother killed either because they were male, heirs to the farm, or because they demonstrated the black ancestry of their mother.
Lady was a woman who was aware that her husband was having an affair with the mammy and was unable to do anything about it. However, Lady got her revenge on her mammy, who was very close to Lady's own child, by making Mammy's child her own. Lady treated Cynara like she were her own child, the child of the lover she once had. This gives Cynara some of the affection all children crave, but it also leaves her feeling the absence of her own mother's love.
