"Most men can't, anyway.

Women may do, but I don't know.

I reckon that what they lust after mostly is babies and a home.

I don't think they know it any more than men know that what they're after is the gratification of a passion; but there it is.

We're sewer rats crawling up a damned long drain, if you ask me, padre! I don't know who said it, but it's true." They turned in their walk, and Peter looked out over the old town.