"I'm Kitty's father, and it's up to me to look out for her interests.

You know how I've educated her for something better than this life.

She may think now that she is willin' to throw it all away, but I know better.

The time would come when she would be miserable.

It's got to be somethin' more than a common cow-puncher for Kitty, Phil, and that's the truth." The cowboy did not argue.