But at the point where she had hoped to find him vulnerable she now began to fear he was proof against all persuasion.
The iron and stone quality that she had early suspected in him had actually cropped out as an impregnable barrier.

Nevertheless, if Lassiter remained in Cottonwoods she would never give up her hope and desire to change him.

She would change him if she had to sacrifice everything dear to her except hope of heaven.

Passionately devoted as she was to her religion, she had yet refused to marry a Mormon.

But a situation had developed wherein self paled in the great white light of religious duty of the highest order.