"I felt chained to the spot, as if something would keep me in the miserable place for the rest of my life.

Had I known how lonely I should be here, I never would have come." "But that's over now, Ruth.

A little while longer, that's all." She gazed at him with an odd, intent, anxious expression upon her countenance.
"You'll not let your irrigation project keep you here always ?" she asked.

"Or live in other places like it?
These mountains and this desolate mesa get on my nerves.

If I thought you were going to stay away from other people, foregoing all the pleasures of cities and the like, I think I should lose my courage and not be able to love you enough to stand it.