"I dreaded this more'n I would to be shot.
I wanted to do the right thing, but I didn't know what _was_ right.
Won't you _say_ you knowed I wanted to do right all the time, and that I just didn't _know_?
Can't you see that I'm sorry I made you marry me, because it wasn't no way right?
Can't you see it's only just to get you some sort of a home ?" "I said _yes_, Sim Gage," said Mary Warren.
"Yes ?" A certain exultation was in his voice.

"To _me_?
All my life everything's been _no_ to me!" She laid her hand on his, pity rising in her own heart.

"I'll take care of you," said she.
"I was scared from the first of any woman coming out here," said Sim Gage truthfully.

"But whatever you say goes.

But our gettin' married! When ?" "The sooner the better." They both nodded assent to this, neither seeing the other, for he dared not look her way now.
"I'll go down to the Company dam right soon," said he.