"He loves me! I know he does!" Then she began, to tremble, and sobbed: "I'm just like other girls." She was still wrestling with herself when Gale returned, and he started at the look in her face as she approached him.
"Why did you marry my mother ?" she asked.

"Why?
Why did you do it ?" He saw that she was in a rage, and answered, bluntly, "I didn't." She shrank at this.

"Then why didn't you?
Shame! Shame! That makes me worse than I thought I was.

Oh, why did you ever turn squaw-man?
Why did you make me a breed ?" "Look here! What ails you ?" said the trader.
"What ails me ?" she mocked.

"Why, I'm neither white nor red; I'm not even a decent Indian.