![]() Once they arrive in South America, they make their way to the mysterious plateau, where they find pterodactyls, stegosauruses, and other creatures thought to be extinct. With the memory of Gladys’s refusal in his mind, Ned joins Challenger on his trip, along with Professor Summerlee and the explorer Lord John Roxton. Challenger says that he will return to South America to bring back proof. That evening, he watches Challenger address a group of academics who dismiss him as a fraud. While interviewing Professor George Challenger for a potential newspaper story, Malone is astonished to hear that Challenger claims to have found live dinosaurs in South America. Her remark galvanizes Malone to undertake the voyage to South America. She wants to be married to a man that will make other women jealous. She senses that he is going to propose and asks him not to, saying that she wants an adventurous man whose dangerous exploits have made him famous. As the novel begins, Ned visits Gladys, a woman he loves and whom he plans to marry. ![]()
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