She seems to care nothing about her boy.

Everything that that woman most desired in life has been struck from her at a blow.

Why?
That a man who was in no stress of poverty, who had friends and employment, should indulge himself in acts which he knew to be against the law, and had promised you and his wife to forego, and should at the same time satisfy a wild beast's hatred against the man, who was simply defending his master's property.

Have _you_ no pity for Mrs.Westall or her child ?" He spoke as calmly as he could, making his appeal to reason and moral sense; but, in reality, every word was charged with electric feeling.
"I _am_ sorry for her!" cried Marcella, passionately.

"But, after all, how can one feel for the oppressor, or those connected with him, as one does for the victim ?" He shook his head, protesting against the word, but she rushed on.