Zane after Betty had gone upstairs to dress for the dance.

"Perhaps it is only that Betty grows a little tired of this howling wilderness.
Small wonder if she does.

You know she has always been used to comfort and many young people, places to go and all that.

This is her first winter on the frontier.

She'll come round all right." "Have it your way, Ebenezer," answered his wife with a look of amused contempt on her face.