You're through.

You have come back from war to find a hell of a mess.

Your own sister--your sweetheart--your friend's brother and your soldier pard's sister--on the primrose path! And you with your last breath trying to turn them back! I'll say it's a damn fine stunt.
I'm an old gambler, Lane.

I've lived in many towns and mixed in tough crowds of crooked men and rotten women.

But I'm here to confess that this after-the-war stuff of Middleville's better class has knocked out about all the faith I had left in human nature....