He knew Milo was not only a giant in size and in strength, but that in ordinary circumstances or at bay he was valiant enough.

But it is one thing to meet casual peril, and quite another to fare forth in the dark among six savage men, all of whom are waiting avidly for the chance to murder.
A braver warrior than Milo Standish might well have hesitated to face sure death in such a form, for the mere sake of saving a man whom he feared and hated, and whose existence threatened his own good name and liberty.
Wherefore, just within the shelter of the open door, the giant paused and hung back, fighting for the nerve to go forth on his fatal errand of heroism.

Gavin, studying him, saw with vivid clearness the weakness of character which had made this man the dupe and victim of Hade, and which had rendered him helpless against the wiles of a master-mind.
But if Standish hesitated, Claire did not.

After one look of scornful pity at her wavering half-brother, she moved swiftly past him to the threshold.

There was no hint of hesitation in her free step as she ran to the rescue of the man who had ruined Milo's career.