If she had hackles, her bearing suggests that they would be up.
"My lord," she says, as evenly as she may, "believe me when I cry your pardon. Though I know not that I should -- it was a battlefield, and one of mine lay dying on the ground. I cannot think but that you, or my husband there, or any man would have done the same."
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"My lord," she says, as evenly as she may, "believe me when I cry your pardon. Though I know not that I should -- it was a battlefield, and one of mine lay dying on the ground. I cannot think but that you, or my husband there, or any man would have done the same."