I understood--I knew what was in your heart; I knew what those things meant to you;--but I had put them aside; I had chosen another life for myself.

And the poor life that you saved, that is yours if you will take it.

I have told your father and Baron von Marhof that I would not take the fortune my father left me; I would not go back there to be thanked or to get a ribbon to wear in my coat.

But my name, the name I bore as a boy and disgraced in my father's eyes,--his name that he made famous throughout the world, the name I cast aside with my youth, the name I flung away in anger,--they wish me to take that." She withdrew her hand and rose and looked away toward the western hills.
"The greatest romance in the world is here, Shirley.

I have dreamed it all over,--in the Canadian woods, on the Montana ranch as I watched the herd at night.