It is right you take the position to which you are entitled, until you understand thoroughly whether this suits you better.

When you know that life as well as this, the people you will meet as intimately as me, then you can decide for all time, and I can look you in the face with honest, unwavering eye; and if by any chance your heart is in the woods, and you prefer me and the cabin to what they have to offer----to all eternity your place here is vacant, Ruth.

My love is waiting for you; and if you come under those conditions, I never can have any regret.

A clear conscience is worth restraining passion a few months to gain, and besides, I always have got the fact to face that when you say 'I love,' and when I say 'I love,' it means two entirely different things.

When you realize that the love of man for woman, and woman for man, is a thing that floods the heart, brain, soul, and body with a wonderful and all-pervading ecstasy, and if I happen to be the man who makes you realize it, then come tell me, and we will show God and His holy angels what earth means by the Heaven inspired word, 'radiance.'" "David, there never will be any other man like you." "The exigencies of life must develop many a finer and better." "You still refuse me?
You yet believe I do not love you ?" "Not with the love I ask, my girl.