Contradiction??

Rating: Null/10 (15 August 2004)

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In Volume One, Elle Driver slips into the Bride's hospital room and is going to inject her with something, I assume to kill her.
In Volume Two, Elle Driver kills Bud and comments that the Bride deserved better than to just be buried alive.
In other words, she believed the Bride deserved to die fighting, right?
So why was Elle willing to inject her in Volume 1?
Didn't the Bride deserve better? Why would it have been okay with Elle for the Bride to die, slipping away in a hospital bed, when she obviously thought she deserved a death more befitting someone of her stature?