human
Yes; it's remarkably nice after living for nine years in the wilderness, with only an occasional visit to some little wooden town.
gpt
You didn't get things of this kind among the pines.
human
No, laughed Vane.
gpt
In fact, cookery is one of the bushman's trials; anyway, when he's working for himself. You come back dead tired, and often very wet, to your lonely tent, and then there's a fire to make and supper to get before you can rest. It happens now and then that you're too played out to trouble, and you go to sleep instead.
human
Dreadful! sympathized the girl.
gpt
But you have been in Vancouver before?
human
Except on the last occasion, I stayed down near the water-front. We were not provided with luxurious quarters or with suppers of this kind there.
gpt
It's romantic; and, though you're glad it's over, there must be some satisfaction in feeling that you owe the change to your own efforts. I mean it must be nice to think one has captured a fair share of the good things of life, instead of having them accidentally thrust upon one. Doesn't it give you a feeling that in some degree you're master of your fate? I should like that