Just now my voice was loud, my manner, I dare say, offensive, and menacing even, and that always tempts a brave fellow like you to resist.

But now, you see, I am harmless as a woman.

We are alone.

Humbug to the winds! I know that you are the only man in this army fit to command a division.

I know that when you say the assault of that bastion is death, death it is.