Sentence:  Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no <WSD>mind</WSD> in that direction ... So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Desire, inclination, or intention.