Mr. Weston remembers Agnes’s favorite flowers and picks them for her without being asked. His quiet attentiveness to her desires and preferences hints that he may return her affections. His use of bluebells to communicate his affections to her, meanwhile, strengthens the symbolic association the novel has made between flowers and love. When Mrs. Murray praises her own “consideration” in letting Agnes take vacation a few days early to visit her extremely sick father, meanwhile, it shows how callous and inconsiderate employers can be of their dependent employees’ needs.