But to ring the child in--that was hellish!" Jane's passionate, unheeding zeal began to loom darkly.
"Lassiter, whatever my intention in the beginning, Fay loves you dearly--and I--I've grown to--to like you." "That's powerful kind of you, now," he said.

Sarcasm and scorn made his voice that of a stranger.

"An' you sit there an' look me straight in the eyes! You're a wonderful strange woman, Jane Withersteen." "I'm not ashamed, Lassiter.

I told you I'd try to change you." "Would you mind tellin' me just what you tried ?" "I tried to make you see beauty in me and be softened by it.

I wanted you to care for me so that I could influence you.