"I think... perhaps for different reasons, we are basically the same there," she said. "They've given me reason to be curious, but they've also given me a lot of reason to doubt, to dislike, to distrust and to want it to end. I think that will mean I continue forward in the end, but with a great deal of grumbling."

She smirked. "I wonder why it is that we feel that we have to explain ourselves in such detail, when the fact is really quite simple."