“The cabin was stuffy. I couldn’t sleep.”
“I wonder.”
“About what?”
“If there isn’t a wild streak in you that corresponds with mine. You fall into the picture naturally—curious and unafraid.”
“Why should I be afraid, and why shouldn’t I be curious?”
“The greatest honour a woman ever paid me. I mean that you shouldn’t be afraid of me when everything should warn you to give me plenty of sea room.” 211
“I know more about men than I do about women.”
“And I know too much about both.”
“There have been other women—besides the one who laughed?”
“Yes. Perhaps I was cruel enough to make them pay for that.