"Of course, a good many people will have told you that before.

Yes, I've been thinking a good deal lately." "It is occasionally a solace to tell one's friends one's thoughts," said Miss Deringham.
"Well," said Alton gravely, "there's a thing I feel I should do, and yet I don't want to, because it would stand in the way of my doing something else." "That is a somewhat common difficulty," said Alice Deringham.

"It depends upon the importance to yourself, or others, of the first thing." Alton nodded.

"There are," he said, "men in this district who have worked very hard, not for the bare living the ranch gives them, because some have put a good deal more into the land than they have taken out of it, but for what it will give them presently.

Now, unless somebody does the right thing for them, another man will walk right in and take all they have worked for away.