But she evidently isn't.

She hasn't the maternal instinct at all strongly developed.

If she had, her heart would bleed for a helpless, unprotected creature like Simpkins, whose brow is being wrung with the most pitiable anguish." "Do you mean to say," said the Major, "that you think she ought to take a pleasure in holding that beast Simpkins' head ?" "That, though you put it coarsely, is exactly what I do mean.

Any true woman would.

Sir Walter Scott distinctly says so." "Considering what you believe about her--I mean all that about her and Mrs.Lorimer being the same person, and her wanting to kill Simpkins--I don't see how you can expect her to be what you call womanly." "There you're wrong, Major; quite wrong, as usual.