I'll break it, though." "With whom ?" "Gail and a couple of boys--kids." "Does your mother know ?" "I'd tell her about Gail, but that's all.

We go for ice cream--then meet the boys and take a walk." "Bessy, you're not going to do that sort of thing any more." Lane bent over her, took her hands.

She instinctively rebelled, then slowly yielded.
"That's part of our bargain ?" she asked.
"Yes, it certainly is." "Then I won't ever again." "Bessy, I trust you.

Do you understand me ?" "I--I think so." "Daren, will you care for me--if I'm--if I do as you want me to ?" "I do now," he replied.

"And I'll care a thousand times more when you prove you're really above these things....