But the loneliness seemed full of content.

She no longer wondered at Slone's desert life.

That might be well for a young man, during those years when adventure and daring called him, but she doubted that it would be well for all of a man's life.

And only a little of it ought to be known by a woman.

She saw how the wildness and loneliness and brooding of such a life would prevent a woman's development.