Opportunity knocked at her door and she meant to be at home to it.

She would not have been Al Auchincloss's niece if she had faltered.
And, when temper was succeeded by genuine anger, she could have laughed to scorn this Harve Riggs and his schemes, whatever they were.

Once and for all she dismissed fear of him.

When she left St.Joseph she had faced the West with a beating heart and a high resolve to be worthy of that West.

Homes had to be made out there in that far country, so Uncle Al had written, and women were needed to make homes.