Casey is a rather case-hardened bachelor, but I suspect that Lucy Lily scared him from the beginning.
"Do you like me when I have pretty dress on ?" she inquired, smoothing the red silk complacently over her knees.
Casey swears that he told her it didn't make a darn bit of difference to him what she wore.

If that is the truth, Lucy Lily must have been very stupid or very persistent, for she went on blandly stating her plans and her dearest wish.
"That gold mine I am keeping for my husband," she announced.

"It is a present for a wedding gift for my man.

I shall not marry an Indian man.

I am too pretty and I have a gold mine, and I will marry a white man.
Indians don't know what money is good for.