She was two-faced; she was trying to cheat him out of his heritage.

She had deceived his father, she was trying to deceive him.

She was unworthy of any admiration whatever, but whenever he looked at her, whenever she was near him, he was conscious of a longing that he could not fight down.
And there was Dade.

He often watched Dade while they were working together on the bunkhouse in the days following the incident of the ambush by Taggart.

The feeling that came over him at these times was indescribable and disquieting, as was his emotion whenever Dade smiled at him.