She would have thought herself incapable of an action so criminal, so monstrous.

But if part of the ruin in the garden were visibly trembling to its fall, she would not have warned him if he had been sitting beneath it, nor would her conscience have ever reproached her afterwards.
"I wish Miss Gresley would come and stay here instead of taking you away from me," she said, plaintively, to Rachel one morning, when she made the disagreeable discovery that Rachel and Hester were friends.

"I don't care much about her myself, she is so profane and so dreadfully irreligious.

But Edward likes to talk to her.

He prefers artificial people.