"She has never seemed that to me. Something has attracted me from the very first. I came, I saw, I loved."
"You must remember that you came under exceptional circumstances."
"And you?"
"I was among the early pioneers."
"How splendid! I wish I could say the same."
"It was extremely uncomfortable."
"But you didn't mind. I don't need to be told that. There was so much to make up for it. How good it must be to be a man!"
"Yet the women are the true heroes out here."
"Why?"
"We get what we came for. Interest, excitement of a kind, freedom...."