If I were a man I'd do just as Papa Roussillon and Rene did; I'd break the bigoted head of every Englishman that mistreated me, I'll do it, girl as I am, if they annoy me, see if I don't!" She was thinking of Captain Farnsworth, who had been from the first untiring in his efforts to gain something more than a passing acquaintance.

As yet he had not made himself unbearable; but Alice's fine intuition led her to the conclusion that she must guard against him from the outset.
Adrienne's simple heart could not grasp the romantic criterion with which Alice was wont to measure action.

Her mind was single, impulsive, narrow and direct in all its movements.

She loved, hated, desired, caressed, repulsed, not for any assignable reason more solid or more luminous than "because." She adored Rene and wanted him near her.

He was a hero in her imagination, no matter what he did.