If Senator Dilworthy remonstrated about appearances, she had a way of silencing him.

Perhaps she had some hold on him, perhaps she was necessary to his plan for ameliorating the condition the tube colored race.
She saw Col.

Selby, when the public knew and when it did not know.
She would see him, whatever excuses he made, and however he avoided her.
She was urged on by a fever of love and hatred and jealousy, which alternately possessed her.

Sometimes she petted him, and coaxed him and tried all her fascinations.

And again she threatened him and reproached him.