Hers was a nature that could not endure unfairness.

It was unfair of David Verity to seek to mend his shattered fortunes by forcing her into a hateful marriage; unfair of both Verity and Coke to found their new venture on a great fraud; and monstrously unfair of these island factionaries to vent their spite on an innocent ship.

So, for the hour, she was inspired.

It is the high-souled enthusiast who devotes life itself to a cause; those who practice oppression have ever most to beware of in the man or woman whose conscience will not condone a wrong.
Of course, in this present clash of emotions, Iris little understood what her advice really meant.

She was appealing to heaven rather than to the force of arms.