Arabella likes Charlie despite, or maybe because, of his shortcomings. She also feels that, though he would never admit it, Charlie had the same kind of crush on Clara Lutz that she used to (and maybe still does) and is a 'fellow sufferer'. She puts Charlie's new-found determination to beat the bottle and straighten out his life, entirely down to her fervent prayers for him to Lord Jesus. 

She was one of the few people to actually bet on Charlie winning his recent boxing match against Robert Cullen. She knew he'd be whipped, but she did it out of loyalty.

Charlie is, no doubt, completely oblivious to any of this!

Arabella used to work with Caroline at the Saloon, providing piano accompaniment for the sultry blonde singer. Off stage, their relationship was tempestuous: Arabella frequently annoying Caroline just to get attention from her, sometimes in an angry shouting way, but one time resulting in a drunken fumble in Caroline's bed. 

Since she has moved out of the saloon, things have calmed down a little, and Arabella is trying her best to let Caroline knows that, much as she enjoys teasing and annoying her, she really does love her.

Arabella's precious, beautiful, wonderful little 'Dolly'. She knows that Miriam will be her life partner and that she will always be true to the quiet, mousy, perhaps slightly boring little Jewish girl. Well, she'll try. I mean, licorice comfits is her favorite, but with all o' them other tempin' candies in the sweetshop, sometimes it's difficult to resist... 

She doesn't even mind that Miriam once 'done the dirty' on the floor of her Pa's half constructed butcher's store with Hector Wigfall (of all people!), as that knowledge somehow alleviates the guilt that she feels when she sometimes get the hankypankies over another girl.