Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"Just the same," he muttered, with a slow shake of the head, "I
don't get the hang of it. There's something wrong so far as we're
concerned--my wife an' me, I mean. Maybe I'll get hold of it
after a while."

"And in the meantime, we'll look around," Mrs. Mortimer invited.
"I want to show you everything, and tell you how I make it go.
Afterward, we'll sit down, and I'll tell you about the beginning.
You see--" she bent her gaze on Saxon--"I want you thoroughly to
understand that you can succeed in the country if you go about it
right. I didn't know a thing about it when I began, and I didn't
have a fine big man like yours. I was all alone. But I'll tell
you about that."