"She resisted you successfully?"
"Yes."
"Gentle as she was, she possessed strength?"
"Oh yes, more than one would have supposed."
"Strength which she would exert to protect herself from insult?"
"Yes."
"Her disposition was a happy one?"
"That was easy to see. She was always singing to herself, and smiling."
"You believe she was fond of life?"
"Why yes--who is not?"