I'd say that if you ever do want to get married, Sim--and you got to if she stays here--why, here's the one and only chancet of your whole life.

Of course, if the girl wasn't blind, she wouldn't never marry you.

I don't believe any woman would, real.

The way she is, and can't see, maybe she will, after a while, like, when she's gentled down, as you say.

It looks like a act of Providence to me." "Well," said Sim, pondering, "I hadn't just thought of it that way.