And what you said is so--she mustn't _ever_ know, not now ner no time, what--Sim Gage really is." Doctor Barnes' voice was out of control.

He turned once more to this newly revealed Sim Gage, a man whom he had not hitherto understood.
"Marriage means all sorts of things.

It covers up things, begins things, ends things.

That's true." "It ends things for her, Doc--it don't begin nothing fer me, you understand.

It is, but it isn't.