Thoughtful on behalf of the poor foolish victims of men she was.

She had saved some, avenged others.

It should be stated, that her notion of saving was the saving of them from the public: she had thrown up a screen.

The saving of them from themselves was another matter--hopeless, to her thinking.
How preach at a creature on the bend of passion's rapids! One might as well read a chapter from the Bible to delirious patients.

When once a woman is taken with the love-passion, we must treat her as bitten; hide her antics from the public: that is the principal business.