Quotation from: The Gods of Mars

Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs

She was silent for a moment, then she drew my face to hers and
kissed me.

"Go, John Carter," she said. "Our son is there, and the soldiers
of Helium, fighting for the Princess of Helium. Where they are you
should be. I must not think of myself now, but of them and of my
husband's duty. I may not stand in the way of that. Hide me in
the pits, and go."