Can't you leave me alone?
Are you any man at all ?" He remained unmoved, phlegmatic.

"So?
Nice talk about you and Sim Gage! Was you two married?
I know you ain't.

You come out to marry him, though, didn't you ?" "Yes." "When ?" "Next week--he's gone for the minister to-day." She said anything, the first thing.
"That's a lie," said the coarse voice of the man she could not see.

"I seen him ten mile down toward the dam, I tell you, with Wid Gardner, and Nels Jensen's folks, below, said they was going for a doctor, not a preacher.

He wouldn't marry no blind woman like you, no ways." She sank back, limp, her face in her bloody hands, as she lay against the edge of the bed.
"Come now," said he.