What you just did. The fire, it troubles you, more than I've seen it troubling many, specially here. Yet you entered it, walked through it and stood in it without panicking despite the fact that probably all the fibers in your being told you to do so or run away.

But you didn't, you stayed and were rational enough to talk calmly to me. If that's not an example of a strong will I don't know what will be.

[He's not one to make compliments and he's not making them now, he's just stating facts and an opinion. If she feels complimented it's not his problem.]