And then he went on, steadying his voice until it was almost cold.

"But it means giving up everything you've dreamed of, Nada--these forests you love, Father John, Yellow Bird, Sun Cloud--" "I have only one dream," she interrupted him softly.
"And five years will pass very quickly," he continued.

"Possibly it will not be as bad as that, and afterward all this land we love will be free to us forever.

Gladly will I remain and take my punishment if in the end it will make us happier, Nada." "I have only one dream," she repeated, caressing his cheek with her hand, "and that is you, Roger.

Wherever you take me I shall be the happiest woman in the world." "WOMAN," he laughed, scarcely breathing the word aloud.
"Yes, I am a woman--now" "And yet forever and ever the little girl of Cragg's Ridge," he cried with sudden passion, crushing her close to him.