He had learned many things that were intensely interesting to him and he had not even touched the surface of what he could see that she had been taught by her father or had learned through experience and personal investigation.

She had been coming to the mountains and the canyons alone, for four years doing by herself what she would have done under her father's supervision had he lived.

That argued for steadfastness and strength of character.

She would not utter one word of flattery.

She would say nothing she did not mean.