What difference does that make?
They won't dare stop us if you are with me, leading the way." "Caroline, are you mad?
When I come back--" "You're not coming back." "Not coming back!" "No, you're going on with me!" She took Ruth by the arms and turned her until the light struck into her eyes.

Ruth Tolliver, aghast at this sudden strength in one who had always been a meek follower, obeyed without resistance.
"But where ?" she demanded.
"Where I'm going." "What ?" "To Ronicky Doone, my dear.

Don't you see ?" The insistence bewildered Ruth Tolliver.

She felt herself driven irresistibly forward, with or without her own will.
"Caroline," she protested, trying feebly to free herself from the commanding hands and eyes of her companion, "are you quite mad?
Go to him?
Why should I?
How can I ?" "Not as I'm going to Bill Gregg, with my heart in my hands, but to ask Ronicky Doone--bless him!--to take you away somewhere, so that you can begin a new life.

Isn't that simple ?" "Ask charity of a stranger ?" "You know he isn't a stranger, and you know it isn't charity.