Why does the author most likely use words with strong negative connotation in this excerpt?

Tell whomever you meet about this new opportunity. the bolded words are what kind of clause?

Which best describes why regina tells the group, “i explained to ben that perhaps you hadn’t answered his letters because you didn’t think he was offering you enough, and that the time was getting short and you could guess how much he needed you—”? to make horace feel as though he deserves a portion of the credit to reassure ben that she was telling the truth about her motives to convince ben that he has been wise to trust what she has said to pacify horace before he gets angry about what she has done mark this and return

What evidence in "helen grey" supports the idea that helen grey is an unpleasant person?