You must be tolerable tired." There was no doubt about it.

There was kindness as well as anxiety in her voice.

For the second time in his entire life, Bull decided that a woman could be something more than an annoyance.

She was placing a value on him, just as Jessie, three days before, had placed a value on him; and it disturbed Bull.

For so many years, he had been mocked and scorned by his uncle and cousins that deep in his mind was engraved the certainty that he was useless.