D'ye get that?
An' you'd better tell the rummy to beat it unless you want to see'm get his face hurt." Saxon, hurt as a prideful woman can be hurt by cavalier treatment, was tempted to cry out the name and prowess of her new-found protector.

And then came fear.

This was a big man, and Billy was only a boy.

That was the way he affected her.

She remembered her first impression of his hands and glanced quickly at the hands of the man beside her.