He flushed and shifted uneasily in his chair.

"I don't know." Then he unbent a little in saying, "That's what's bothering me right now." She pursued her advantage.

"If you marry you've got to quit all this trail business." "Dead sure thing! And that scares me too.

I don't know how I'd stand being tied down to a stake." She laid a hand on his arm.

"Now see here, Mose, you let me help you.
You know all about cattle and the trail, you can shoot and throw a rope, but you're a babe at lots of other things.