I have no conscience, and things don't weigh on my mind at all.

I'm a light-minded person." Looking closely at her, the Young Doctor got a still further insight into the mind and soul of this prairie girl, who used a lid of irony to cover a well of deep feeling.

Things did not weigh on her mind! He was sure that pain to the wife of Shiel Crozier would be mortal torture to Kitty Tynan.
"But I felt exactly what I wrote that Derby Day when he broke his pledge, and he ought to know me exactly as I was," urged Mona.

"I don't want to deceive him, to appear a bit better than I am." "Oh, you'd rather lose him!" said Kitty almost savagely.

"Knowing how hard it is to keep a man under the best circumstances, you'd willingly make the circumstances as bad as they can be--is that it?
Besides, weren't you sorry afterwards that you wrote that letter ?" "Yes, yes, desperately sorry." "And you wished often that your real self had written on Derby Day and not the scratch-cat you were then ?" Mona flushed, but answered bravely, "Yes, a thousand times." "What business had you to show him your cat-self, your unreal, not your real self on Derby Day five years ago?
Wasn't it your duty to show him your real self ?" Mona nodded helplessly.