I want her to get forward, to set her among people who'll understand what to do with her." "Ship her back to her father"-- sagely.
"No.

I tell you, that girl would jump into the sea, rather.
Something happened down there, and probably I'll never know what.
Every time you mention the father, she turns into marble.

No; she'd never go back.

Mac, she's the honestest human being I ever saw or heard of; and at the same time she is velvet over steel.

And yet, she would be easy prey in her present state of mind to any plausible, attractive scoundrel.