"What do you mean?" he asked.
"When I come back from the East," she spoke slowly but collectedly, "I expect to go into a new home."
"Where?"
"In the Falling Wall."
For a moment he did not speak, only looked at her fixedly: "What I've heard's so, then?" he said, after a pause.
"What have you heard?"
"The story is you're going to marry Jim Laramie."
Kate, in turn, stood silently regarding her father, and as if she knew she must face it out.
"Is that so?" he demanded harshly.
She burst into tears, but through her tears the two men heard her answer: "Yes, father."