What you meant is one thing--what you did was to make me love you." "Lassiter!" "I reckon I'm a human bein', though I never loved any one but my sister, Milly Erne.

That was long--" "Oh, are you Milly's brother ?" "Yes, I was, an' I loved her.

There never was any one but her in my life till now.

Didn't I tell you that long ago I back-trailed myself from women?
I was a Texas ranger till--till Milly left home, an' then I became somethin' else--Lassiter! For years I've been a lonely man set on one thing.

I came here an' met you.