These heroic traits show that the heroine is completely selfless-she devotes all her energies to helpless others. The caged canary, infant dormouse and rosebush will die without attention. Having nursed a Deermouse(does that make me a heroine) it is a not inconsiderable labour-you have to get up every two hours during the night. They didnt have hoses to water things..you had to carry water and so on. Catherine is thoughtless and self absorbed as a child-in other words completely normal.