Its very presence there, after all that she has suffered, is a menace to Lady Dominey's nerves.

I am determined to sweep it from the face of the earth." The forced respect was already beginning to disappear from her manner.
"There's evil will come to you if you do, Sir Everard," she declared doggedly.
"Plenty of evil has come to me from that wood as it is," he reminded her.
"You mean to disturb the spirit of him whose body you threw there ?" she persisted.
Dominey looked at her calmly.

Some sort of evil seemed to have lit in her face.

Her lips had shrunk apart, showing her yellow teeth.

The fire in her narrowed eyes was the fire of hatred.
"I am no murderer, Mrs.Unthank," he said.