"Margaret could not help her looks;" Gaskell writes in
describing the young woman's physical appearance, "but the short
curled upper lip, the round massive up-turned chin, the manner
of carrying her head, her movements, full of a soft feminine
defiance, always gave strangers the impression of haughtiness"
(ch. 7, p.62). When John Thornton comes to take tea with the
Hales in chapter 10, he is distinctly aware of the arrogance and
indifference that Margaret shows him, and yet he cannot help his
extreme attraction to her. For a man who exudes power and
control in all other facets of his life, this is a difficult
experience for Thornton to deal with. He wants to be able to
demonstrate the same indifference, and yet he is drawn to
Margaret's every move:  She had a bracelet on one taper arm,
which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched
the replacing of this troublesome ornament with far more
attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it
fascinated him to see her push it up impatie