She is depicted as a kind of baleful Madonna&colon; depraved, hypocritical, perversely saintlike. This path inflicts a number of baleful curses on victims. Motley writes that this doggerel was seen as a "baleful prophecy" of things to come. Morgan, who is afflicted with heart trouble, advises Pemberton to escape his family's baleful influence. Despite these baleful traits, he has some attachment to his adoptive human mother.