Quotation from: The Strength of the Strong

Written by: Jack London

"Yes," she nodded, with equal coolness. "What savages they are."

His admiration for her doubled on itself. She was indeed his sort.
He would have been satisfied with her even if she had screamed, and
clung to him, but this--this was magnificent. She sat in that
storm centre as calmly as if it had been no more than a block of
carriages at the opera.