If she chose to live in the world she must conform to its customs.

For a woman marriage was the aim and the end and the all of existence.
Nevertheless, for Carley it could not be without love.

Before she had gone West she might have had many of the conventional modern ideas about women and marriage.

But because out there in the wilds her love and perception had broadened, now her arraignment of herself and her sex was bigger, sterner, more exacting.

The months she had been home seemed fuller than all the months of her life.