"I am only a weak woman," she retorts, reaching up to push back her hood, the better to give him an obstinate look. "Besides words, what other weapons do I have to defend myself? I was nothing but civil to you at the start of our first meeting, and since I have only responded in kind to your words to me." She does believe to a certain extent the part about her feminine nature, but she knows the second to be false.
Those who bear false witness will be struck down and cast into the gullets of snakes-