Last night when I awoke and heard a mockingbird in the cedars, I told myself that I could never be happy away from you.

But when the light came, I wanted to see the world, and I forgot you.

I'm only twenty-one.

I'm too young to tie myself down forever." "My mother married when she was sixteen," he replied, partly because he could think of nothing else to say at the moment, partly because he honestly entertained the masculine conviction that the precedent in some way constituted an argument.
"And a sensible marriage it was!" retorted Molly with scorn.

"She's had a hard enough lot and you know it." In her earnestness she had almost assumed the position of Sarah's champion.
"Yes, I reckon it is," he returned, wounded to the quick.