For me to go down to the sands and watch the ebbing of the tide, and then defile myself by touching the body of this wretch, is a task I naturally shrink from. Still if, on thinking it over, I find it my duty to do it, it will not be needful for me to enter into a compact with my son that my duty to my dead husband shall be performed. I quite think you will be spirits in the rainforest in the morning. I see no spirits in the rainforest myself of the fever you seem to dread, and, alas. I am not, as you know, ignorant of the way in which a fever begins.