"We had best go on as we are while your project is being started, for I wouldn't be so selfish as to make a command on your time at a critical moment, Lee dear.

And I must plan clothes and things.

Knowing that happiness is ahead of us, oh, homesteading then will be only a lark! I'll never need follow it up, but just abandon it when we're ready.

Kiss me again, Lee, and then we must start back." They retraced their steps down the canon, obtaining the basket of berries on the way.

Once, as they neared the cabins, Ruth paused, gazing at her lover.
"I had actually come to hate these claims," she said.