That same love would exculpate him.

He would make her a prisoner, and Jean should drive them back to the Wekusko.

Meleese herself had set the pace and he would follow it.

And what woman, if she loved a man, would not surrender after this?
In their sledge trip he would have her to himself, for not only an hour or two, but for days.

Surely in that time he could win.