If you come to wildernesses, and if you come to the law of the individual, I say we're only just approaching that sort of thing right now, and here." She looked at him, some inarticulate sort of sound in her throat, fully frightened now, seeing how mistaken she had been.

He went on: "Out there in the big valleys beyond the river, you would indeed disappear.

No man could guess what had become of you.

You would never be found again.

And without any doubt or question, Madam, if you force me to it, you shall have your answer in that way.