It's a good thing that Brigitta can't read thoughts; or else she'd smack him with her sword just to teach him some manners... Even if she is prone to being very, very difficult. But that's less to do with her being a woman and more to do with her being Brigitta; stubborn is in her nature.

"But I don't want to kill you," she explains patiently, as if to a very small, very stupid child. "You're quite obviously a innocent - you almost have a halo."