"Well, it is this.

I am made this way, that I should have been a man child.

In my own thoughts it is so I am always; and I go on telling myself about this thing that is to befall and that.

Then it comes to the place of the fighting, and it comes over me that I am only a girl at all events, and cannot hold a sword or give one good blow; and then I have to twist my story round about, so that the fighting is to stop, and yet me have the best of it, just like you and the lieutenant; and I am the boy that makes the fine speeches all through, like Mr.David Balfour." "You are a bloodthirsty maid," said I.
"Well, I know it is good to sew and spin, and to make samplers," she said, "but if you were to do nothing else in the great world, I think you will say yourself it is a driech business; and it is not that I want to kill, I think.

Did ever you kill anyone ?" "That I have, as it chances.