But I _know_ what it means to be engaged, the right kind of engagement.

It means that you don't count yourself at all, not a bit.

You're ready, each of you, to give up all you've got--your wishes, comfort, money and what it'll buy, and your life, if it should come to that, for that other one.

Do you care for Malcolm Dunn like that, Caroline ?" She answered defiantly.
"Yes, I do," she said.
"You do.

Well, do you think he feels the same way about you ?" "Yes," with not quite the same promptness, but still defiantly.
"You feel sartin of it, do you ?" She stamped her foot.