That smart but ill-natured persons might also prove extremely silly on occasions was far from her thoughts, and yet the very question she had imprudently put to Okoya was an instance of it.
It did not occur to her that it might yet be problematic whether Okoya would ever become a traitor to his own people.

She could not conceive how anybody might be different from her and from Tyope, and of course she had no doubt concerning his ultimate pliability.

And she relied also upon the influence Mitsha would exert upon her future husband, taking it for granted that her child had the same low standards as her parents.
That child Hannay regarded merely as a resource,--as valuable property, marketable and to be disposed of to the most suitable bidder.

In her eyes Okoya appeared as a very desirable one.
She saw that the courtship, if thus it may be called, was advancing most favourably; and thought it proper, now that the ball was in motion, to allow it to roll alone for a short time,--in other words, to leave the house under some pretext, abandoning the young folk to themselves.

After her return she intended to sound Okoya again, though in a more skilful manner.