"But really—I did not mean to take your mind. I haven't it anywhere about me. You have dreamed all this."
"Yes; it may be only a dream, Miss Searles, but make it come true; please make it all come true. I should like to live such a dream."
"Oh, my good man, I cannot make the dreams of casual people come true, not such serious dreams as yours."
"You say you would have to live in the corral with mules. Is that because I have so little money?"
"No, it is not money. I do not know how much you have."
"I have often taken enough gold out of the ground in a few days to last me a year."
"Yes, yes, but that is not the only thing necessary."
"What is necessary, then? Tell me what you want."
"There would have to be a great deal of love, you know. That is why any one marries. I have been flattered by the attentions of many cavaliers like yourself, Mr. Ermine, but I could not marry any one of them unless I loved him."