Shen had heard Madame Shu's compliment, the embarrassment expressed by the scholar, and then her insistence upon the compliment.  "Madame, I cannot speak for the others.  Nor do I wish to - putting words in another's mouth is bad taste.  But I can, and will, safely say that for myself, my actions are those in line with my own training.  As an exorcist, I'm supposed to help people against things that they aren't *normally* able to defend themselves against.  It was the same here - just with thugs instead of a ghost."