"Our being engaged doesn't make any difference--" "Oh, doesn't it?
I'm tremendously glad to know you feel that way about it.

Since it doesn't make any difference whatever--" "Aw, cut it out, Mary V! You know darn well what I meant." "Why, certainly.

You mean that our being engaged doesn't make a particle--" "Say, _listen_ a minute, will you! I'm going to pay your dad for those horses that were run off right under my nose while I was tinkering with this airplane.

I don't care what you think, or what old Sudden thinks, or what anybody on earth thinks! I know what I think, and that's a plenty.

I'm going to make good before I marry you, or come back to the ranch.
"Why, good golly! Do you think I'm going to be pointed out as a joke on the Rolling R?
Do you think I'm going to walk around as a living curiosity, the only thing Sudden Selmer ever got stung on?
Oh--h, no! Not little Johnny! They can't say I got into the old man for a bunch of horses and the girl, and that old Sudden had to stand for it! I told your dad I'd pay him back, and I'm going to do it if it takes a lifetime.
"I'm calling that debt three thousand dollars--and I consider at that I'm giving him the worst of it.