'They are over-rated, savages.

They're too much like other people, not exciting, after the first acquaintance.' 'Oh, it's not so very wonderfully brave then, to be an explorer ?' 'No.

It's more a question of hardships than of terrors.' 'Oh! And weren't you ever afraid ?' 'In my life?
I don't know.

Yes, I'm afraid of some things--of being shut up, locked up anywhere--or being fastened.

I'm afraid of being bound hand and foot.' She looked at him steadily with her dark eyes, that rested on him and roused him so deeply, that it left his upper self quite calm.