He seems all men in one.

And despite all his kindness and goodness and hopefulness, there is the sense I have of something deadly and terrible and inevitable in him.
"It makes my heart almost stop beating to know I have this man on my side.

Because I sense in him the man element, the physical--oh, I can't put it in words, but I mean something great in him that can't be beaten.
What he says _must_ come true!...

And so I've already begun to dream and to think of you as my wife.

If you ever are--no! _when_ you are, then I will owe it to Bent Wade.