She was so eager to lay hold on life.

And she was equipped for it--there was no doubt of that.
Mr.Grainger, of Grainger, Ellison and Wells, who had had charge of the business of the estate from time immemorial, whose trade it was to be cautious, was cheerful over the Colonel's misgivings.
"You wouldn't feel anxious if she was a lad," he said.

"I'd set her against nine hundred and ninety lads out of a thousand for sound common-sense.

She won't do anything foolish.

Take my word for it, she won't do anything foolish." She did not do anything foolish.