"I want to be happy; I want to be loved; I don't want to live a life of just dreary commonplaceness, alone, uncared for, with no outlook, with no prospect of joys.

I want the most there is in happiness--every girl wants that; and this monotonous existence has been robbing me, stifling me, until sometimes I've been wild enough to leap off a high rock.

But now!" Bryant's arms went closer about her.
"It shall be different now," he murmured.
"Yes, yes; it must, it shall.

There's no sense in people not being happy when the world was made for that very purpose." "Whenever you say, we'll be married," Lee stated.
Ruth was silent for a time, considering this.

It, indeed, left her a little startled.
"But it mustn't be too soon," she replied, at last.