A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.

The ladies of Sulaco adored Mrs.Gould.

"They still look upon me as something of a monster," Mrs.Gould had said pleasantly to one of the three gentlemen from San Francisco she had to entertain in her new Sulaco house just about a year after her marriage.
They were her first visitors from abroad, and they had come to look at the San Tome mine.

She jested most agreeably, they thought; and Charles Gould, besides knowing thoroughly what he was about, had shown himself a real hustler.

These facts caused them to be well disposed towards his wife.