Something within her told that it would not.

She had already noticed that Tyope was not liked; but why, she knew not.

Okoya himself had intimated as much.

She knew that the boy shunned her father; and her attachment to Okoya had become so deep that his utterances began to modify her feelings toward her own parents.
If she would sorrow and grieve for her father's loss, if Okoya was mourning over his grandfather's demise, how must the child of the murdered man, of such a man as Topanashka, feel?
His only child was a woman like herself.

A true woman always feels for her sex and sympathizes with other women's grief; and besides, that woman was the mother of the youth who had won her heart.