"This young woman called on me yesterday, and within a quarter of an hour--fifteen minutes, mind you!--she had me going like a fool! Understand?
I'm not proof--against her--and yet I'm growing old in the service and haven't had a love affair since--a long time ago.

I'm going to send you up to the Wekusko camp, above Le Pas, to bring down a prisoner.

The man is her husband, and he almost killed Hodges, who is chief of construction up there.
The minimum he'll get is ten years, and this woman is moving heaven and earth to save him.

So help me God, Steele, if I was one of the youngsters, and she came to me as she did yesterday, I believe I'd let him give me the slip! But it mustn't happen.

Understand?
It mustn't happen.