"Neither of them is a heap flighty, I reckon.

An' Kane will marry her if she'll have him--accordin' to the way things generally go." The woman smiled as she left Corwin and joined the older woman at the front of the store.

She smiled as she talked with the other woman, and she smiled as they both walked out of the store and climbed into a buckboard.

The smile was one that would have puzzled Corwin, for it was inscrutable, baffling.

Only one thing Corwin might have seen in it--determination.