I told her of the Leicester phase of the situation, and I also told her that her father had asked me if the man whom she loved was willing to make her his wife before the world.
"Tell my father," said she, "that I will be no man's wife save before all the world.

A man who will not acknowledge me never shall possess me." I went back to Sir George and delivered the message word for word.
"She is a strange, strong girl, isn't she, Malcolm ?" said her father.
"She is her father's child," I replied.
"By my spurs she is.

She should have been a man," said Sir George, with a twinkle of admiration in his eyes.

He admired a good fight even though he were beaten in it.
It is easy to be good when we are happy.

Dorothy, the great disturber, was both.