And as a vampire, Lucy's natural physical attractiveness comes out: her "purity" is turned "to voluptuous wantonness" (16.17). Although she was never as maternal as Mina, any maternal instincts Lucy had before she was a vampire are perverted – she clutches a child to her chest, but instead of feeding the child, she feeds on it. And when she is interrupted by the men in the graveyard, she "fl[ings] [the child] to the ground, callous as a devil" (16.19).