He meant her to be stopped.

Frances prayed to him frantically that Lisa might soon be put off of the earth.

Just as the Catholic used to pray before he massacred the Huguenot, or the Protestant, when he tied his Catholic brother to the stake.

If this woman was mad for blood, it was a madness that many sincere people have shared.
Colette was busy with her mistress for a long time.

She was very gentle and tender, being fond of Lisa, as people of her class always were.