"We have known each other only three weeks.
Since you joined our wagon-train, and have been so kind to me and so helpful to make that long, rough ride endurable, you have won my regard.

I--I cannot say more, even if I would.

You told me you ran away from your Virginian home to seek adventure on the frontier, and that you knew no one in all this wild country.

You even said you could not, or would not, work at farming.

Perhaps my sister and I are as unfitted as you for this life; but we must cling to our uncle because he is the only relative we have.