Her thoughts ran straight and true to the one outstanding, vivid, and overwhelming fact that she could not marry Kane Lawler because to marry him would mean added humiliation.
Greatness, Ruth knew, was hedged about by simplicity.

Lawler was as direct in his attitude toward life--and to herself--as she.

There was about him no wavering, no indecision, no mulling over in his mind the tangled threads of thought that would bring confusion.

The steel fiber of his being was unelastic.

He met the big questions of life with an eagerness to solve them instantly.
He wanted her--she knew.