I've had no one.

I never had any one." "You have some one now," returned Wade, with a rich, deep mellowness in his voice that soothed Columbine and made her wonder.

"An' because I've been through so much I can tell you what'll help you....

Lass, if a woman isn't big an' brave, how will a man ever be?
There's more in women than in men.

Life has given you a hard knock, placin' you here--no real parents--an' makin' you responsible to a man whose only fault is blinded love for his son.