Do you understand?
All this has developed a set of steadier nerves in me than I have had since I was a child.
"A new and curiously keen enjoyment has been slowly growing in me--a happiness in physical and violent effort.

I've a devilish horse to ride; and I love it! I've climbed all over the Gilded Dome and Lynx Peak after the biggest and shaggiest boar you ever saw.

Oh, Duane! I came on him just at the edge of evening, and he winded me and went thundering down the Westgate ravine, and I fired too quickly.
"But I'm after him almost every day with old Miller, and my arms and legs are getting so strong, and my flesh so firm, and actually I'm becoming almost plump in the face! Don't you care for that kind of a girl?
"Dear, do you think I've passed the danger mark?
Tell me honestly--not what you want to think, but what you do believe.

I don't know whether I have passed it yet.

I feel, somehow, whichever side of it I am on, that the danger mark is not very far away from me.