"What do you mean ?" As she spoke she felt the tears come again on her cheeks, felt her hands trembling.
"Well, ma'am, I know mighty well I'll never marry now.

Of course, if one sort of woman had came out here--big and strong enough to be a housekeeper and nothing else, and all that, and one thing with another--I won't say what might have happened.

Strange things has happened that way--right out of them damn _Hearts Aflame_ ads--right around along in here, in this here valley, too, I know.

Well, of course, a man can't get along so well, ranching, unless he has a wife----" "Or a housekeeper ?" "Why, yes.

That's what we advertised fer.