 Though she managed to enlist, her feminine traits and holes in her ears gave her away and she was exposed by a woman in the marketplace.Upon being taken to the police for questioning, she sobbed uncontrollably and expressed a desire to fight in the trenches.Though an offer was made to her to become an auxiliary nurse, she declined, stating she wanted to avenge the "humiliation passed by his countrymen at the hands of heartless Paraguayans."