But I've got kind of used to it." "But it--it's so, then; my mother did marry my father," said Susan.
"No.

She let him betray her.

And when a woman lets a man betray her without being married by the preacher or somebody, why, she's ruined forever." "But doesn't marriage mean where two people promise to love each other and then betray each other ?" "If they're married, it isn't betraying," explained Ruth.

"If they're not, it is betraying." Susan reflected, nodded slowly.
"I guess I understand.

But don't you see it was my father who was the disgrace?
He was the one that promised to marry and didn't." "How foolish you are!" cried Ruth.