"She's just a kid." (32)
"She was very young - about thirteen - and at that age you are not afraid of many things, age and death. all the things which may turn up, snake-bite and fever and rats and bad smells. Life hadn't got at her yet; she had a false air of impregnabilty. But she had been reduced already, as it were, to the smallest terms - everything was there but on the thinnest lines." (33)
"She never spoke without deliberation; she was prepared - but sometimes the answers she had prepared seemed to him of a wildness..." (34)
"She was as inflexible as the lieutenant: small and black and out of place among the banana groves. Her candour made allowances for nobody: the future, full of compromises, anxieties, and shame, lay outside. But at any moment now a word, a gesture, the most trivial act might be her sesame." (36)
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