She feels, I reckon, though mebbe she hardly knows she feels it, that there's a vast deal in her life you can't enter nor understand--and so she has to keep you back from it--hold you off, so to speak, from hurting her.

You know if we've got anything about us that hurts we shrink from anyone's touch on or near it.

It holds good with our souls as well as our bodies, I reckon.

Leslie's soul must be near raw--it's no wonder she hides it away." "If that were really all, I wouldn't mind, Captain Jim.

I would understand.