Possible Clues:

• One gets round at first to miss her
• Bachelorette, pejoratively
• Unattached lady taking trips with the better half
• Eleanor Rigby, for one
• One who's not the marrying type
• Maid hurries back and starts to spring-clean the entire room
• Single woman
• One spurning union activity plays politics - time in office curtailed!
• For example, Miss Havisham favourably presents period not married
• Miss a turn and the rest get muddled up