I tell you, he thinks no more of her than--than the wild geese think of her.

If old Joe dies because Dan is away--well, Cumberland is an old man anyway.

But how could I stand to see Barry pass Kate by with an empty eye, the way he'd do if he come back?
I'd want to kill him, and I'd get bumped off tryin' it, like as not.

And what would it do to Kate?
It'd kill her, Doc, as sure as you're born." "Your assumption being," murmured the doctor, "that if she never sees the man again she will eventually forget him." "D'you forget a knife that's sticking into you?
No, she won't forget him.

But maybe after a while she'll be able to stand thinkin' about him.
She'll get used to the hurt.