Nor should it be denied that there was talk of the new inhabitants across the arroyo.

The morning promenade of the man from Leavenworth had been productive of results; add to these the results of so noble a feast as this Christmas dinner of ours, and it was foregone that our hearts must expand to include in welcome all humanity west of the Pecos.
After all, no man is better than the prettiest woman in his environment.

As to these girls from Kansas, it is to be said that there had never before been a real woman in Heart's Desire.

You, who have always lived where there is law, and society, and women, and home,--you cannot know what it is to see all these things gradually or swiftly dawning upon your personal horizon.

Yet this was the way of Heart's Desire, where women and law and property were not.
It was perhaps the moon, or perhaps youth, or perhaps this state of life to which I have referred.