Yet how did he know then how important they were to be?
It had seemed as if they had all the world before them in the brilliant sunlight.

How could he know that modern improvements were to seize him in the midst of a prairie waste, and whirl him off from her when he had just begun to know what she was, and to prize her company as a most precious gift dropped down from heaven at his feet?
By degrees he came out of his hysterical frenzy, and returned to a somewhat normal state of mind.

He reasoned himself several times into the belief that those men were not in the least like the men he had seen Sunday.

He knew that one could not recognize one's own brother at that distance and that rate of passing speed.

He tried to think that Elizabeth would be cared for.