Jack has nagged me to marry him right off.

He wanted to the day he came back from Kremmling.

He's eager to leave White Slides.

Dad knows that, also, and it worries him.

But of course I refused." The presence of Columbine, so vivid and sweet and stirring, and all about her the sunlight, the golden gleams on the sage hills, and Wade's heart and brain and spirit sustained a subtle transformation.