But I can not.

Look! Look at those wonderful mountains!" With one free hand she pointed.
"Behind them and beyond them lie the romance and adventure and mystery of centuries, and for nearly thirty years you have been very near those things, Captain Rifle.

No man will ever see again what you have seen or feel what you have felt, or forget what you have had to forget.

I know it.

And after all that, can't you--won't you--forget the strange manner in which I came aboard this ship?
It is such a simple, little thing to put out of your mind, so trivial, so unimportant when you look back--and think.