While I grant we have not known each other for more than a minute, I can assure you that I am not hiding some particular soft side. You ought to have my measure by now.

[This isn't entirely true, of course; she's more complicated than she will admit, or acknowledge. But even assuming that, 'kind' is not a word she would apply to herself, so it works poorly as a focus word, no matter what the truth of her may be.]