She was obstinately persistent, and she was moreover unscrupulous, but she was not selfish.

Many years ago she had made up her mind that George and Alice should be man and wife, feeling that such a marriage would be good at any rate for her brother.

It had been almost brought about, and had then been hindered altogether through a fault on her brother's part.

But she had forgiven him this sin as she had forgiven many others, and she was now at work in his behalf again, determined that they two should be married, even though neither of them might be now anxious that it should be so.

The intrigue itself was dear to her, and success in it was necessary to her self-respect.
She answered Alice's letter with a pleasant, gossiping epistle, which shall be recorded, as it will tell us something of Mrs Greenow's proceedings at Yarmouth.