She is wise enough to care for him, greatly, at bottom, and to feel her little heart filled with rage and shame that he does n't appear to care for her.

If he would take her a little more seriously--it 's an immense pity he married her because she was silly!--she would be flattered by it, and she would try and deserve it.
No, no, no! she does n't, in reality, care a straw for Captain Lovelock, I assure you, I promise you she does n't.

A woman can tell.

She is in danger, possibly, and if her present situation, as regards her husband, lasts, she might do something as horrid as he said.

But she would do it out of spite--not out of affection for the Captain, who must be got immediately out of the way.