That will do." Barker had halted with the chair he was dragging toward her and sat down.
"Now," said Miss Kitty, withdrawing her eyes and looking straight before her, "I believe everything you say; perhaps I oughtn't to--or at least SAY it--but I do.

There! But because I do believe you--it seems to me all wrong! For the very reasons that you give for not having spoken to me BEFORE, if you really felt as you say you did, are the same reasons why you should not speak to me now.

You see, all this time you have let nobody but yourself know how you felt toward me.

In everybody's eyes YOU and your partners have been only the three stuck-up, exclusive, college-bred men who mined a poor claim in the Gulch, and occasionally came here to this hotel as customers.

In everybody's eyes I have been only the rich hotel-keeper's popular daughter who sometimes waited upon you--but nothing more.