Courage and strength and mental resource; yes, Cutty possessed these; and he would be the kind to laugh at a joke or a hurt.
One thing, however, was indelibly printed on her mind.

Stefani Gregor--either Cutty had met and known the man or he had heard of him.
Suddenly she became conscious that she was blinking as one blinks from mirror-reflected sunlight.

She cast about for the source of this phenomenon.

Obliquely from between the interstices of the fire-escape platform came a point of moving white light.

She craned her neck.