Mr. Wititterly’s comment that Mrs. Wititterly’s “soul is too big for its body” seems to suggest that Mrs. Wititterly feels so much compassion for others that it is occasionally overwhelming. It remains to be seen whether that is a euphemism for a kind of anxiety or whether it is, like other cases in the novel, an example of people loudly proclaiming their own virtue, while in reality, they use those claims of virtue to obscure the true, selfish motivations for their actions.