She is high-minded, an idealist, the soul of honor.

What other woman would have consented to be separated from her friends on Fernando Noronha merely because it increased their meager chances of safety?
How few women, loving a man like Philip Hozier, who is assured of a splendid reward for his services to this State, would resolutely deny the claims of her own heart in order to keep her word ?" Bulmer had never heard anyone speak with the crystal directness of Dom Corria.

Each word chipped away some part of the fence which he had deliberately erected around his own intelligence.

Certain facts had found crevices in the barrier already; Dom Corria broke down whole sections.

But he was a hard man, and stubborn.