I just didn't _know_--that was all.

You won't blame me too much fer gettin' you here into this awful place, will you ?" "No, I understand," said she gently.

"I think I know more about you now than I did at first." "I ain't much to know, ma'am.

But you--why, if I studied all my life, I wouldn't begin to know you hardly none at all." She could not doubt the reverence of his tone, could not miss the sweetness of it.

No; nor the sureness of the anchorage that it offered.
"If this is the way you want it," he went on, "I'll promise you never to bother you, no way in the world.