If they didn't know what they were dealing with, then perhaps they should not have attacked in the first place.

[Finally, he spins around abruptly to face her, the moment she decides to quicken her steps to catch up to him, so they are only feet apart when she skids to a halt. He's forced his way into her mind before -- he knows the sort of woman he is dealing with.

And the sort of woman he was dealing with would not have rolled over if she was attacked by a group expecting to overwhelm her.]

You speak as though you would not have done the very same. You cannot deny it. I know better.