That was all I needed, just to get my teeth set.

But what about you?
This is no fit place for your kind--you better go home to your mother." She shook her head with decision.
"Why not?
is she hard ?" "Yes, she would be very hard with me." "Do you mean you would rather risk it here with--with me, than go back, and face her ?" "Yes, even that," she replied soberly.

"I have courage to fight it out here, but not there.

I know what it will mean if I go back--reproaches, gossip, ostracism--all the petty meannesses of a small town.

I loathe the very thought.