From the point of view of the talk, you are a man.

The woman in you is only incidental, accidental, and irrelevant.

You've got to listen to the bald statement of fact, strange though it is, that I love you." "And now I won't bother you any more about love.

We'll go on the same as before.

You are better off and safer on Berande, in spite of the fact that I love you, than anywhere else in the Solomons.