I should say that the fact taht IIRC she is totally silent in company, and doesn't "deign to get out of her carraige" to speak to Charlotte, but keeps her standing about in the cold wind, shows that she's neither intelligent nor kindly...I feel that she's not at all interested in Charlotte, and would regard the idea that she might make a freind of a woman so much lower in rank than herself as impossible.. but like her mother she amkes use of C whene no better company is to be found...