There was one loophole left
to comfort her. It seemed scarcely reasonable that they could fare on
forever without encountering other frontier folk. Upon that
possibility she based her hopes of getting back to civilization, not so
much for love of civilization as to defeat Roaring Bill's object, to
show him that a woman had to be courted rather than carried away
against her will by any careless, strong-armed male. She knew nothing
of the North, but she thought there must be some mode of communication
or transportation. If she could once get in touch with other
people--well, she would show Roaring Bill. Of course, getting back to
Cariboo Meadows meant a new start in the world, for she had no hope,
nor any desire, to teach school there after this episode. She found
herself facing that prospect unmoved, however. The important thing was
getting out of her present predicament.
Roaring Bill made his camp that night as if no change in their attitude
had taken place. To all his efforts at conversation she turned a deaf
ear and a stony countenance. She proposed to eat his food and use his
bedding, because that was necessary. But socially she would have none
of him.
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