She brought out the boyishness in Michael.
Audrey Hepburn had short hair and nobody ever accused her of boyishness.
More to the point, the revenge plot itself works to recapture their lost boyishness.
The future squire's boyishness thus spills into "girlishness," and although he makes attempts at asserting independence, they are as feeble and lightly treated as those of a marriageable daughter.
In fact, it is the carrying over of this' boyishness' into everyday life and the freedom that this implies that captures the attention of some fans.