I want you most of all, but shall want other things, too." He smiled indulgently.
"A few years perhaps," he replied.

"Till I'm solid on my feet--till I get going well--we're both young--and then----" He dismissed the matter with a wave of the hand.
But that evening, when Lee and Dave had gone, when Imogene was asleep, when the soft darkness was thickening over the mesa, Ruth walked forth to the edge of the sagebrush.
"I wonder," she murmured, leaving her thought unfinished.
The hush of the mountains, the silence of the plain, the vastness, the emptiness, the seeming purposelessness of it all, irritated and oppressed her spirit.

And she so yearned to be where the world was alive and throbbing! "I wonder if I really love him enough, or if I made a little fool of myself this afternoon ?" she muttered to herself.

"I wonder!".