Macpherson joked about the occupants of the polar base, including "botanists, physicists, electronic.You""re nowhere near in any shape.So I say, you know, for God""s sake, why don""t you stand up and fight this guyhardlike you done before? That was beautiful." Mrs.Bartlett (Kate Bruce) is a "gentle soul...as sweet as her beloved Scriptures." At wenty-one years of age, David often daydreams.Back in Boston, the Tremonts hold their great ball, "the climax of the social season." Well-attired guests arrive as Anna wears a plain dress "that she and her mother had made in case she should go out in Society.She pulls on the beaded chain around her own neck while admitting that she really wants the horses"" coachman, and not the horses - she rationalizes that "he""d be miserable without the horses":Baron: So much heart and so little sense.