"I don't care a damn about you, of course, Gage.

You're not fit for her to wipe her shoes on, and you know it.

But _she_ can't see it and doesn't know it.

If she could see you--what do you suppose she'd think?
Gage--_she mustn't ever know_!" Sim Gage looked at him quietly.

"Every one of them words you said to me, Doc, is plumb true, and it ain't enough.