"Sure enough goin'?"
"Sure enough going."
"But you're soaked and cold."
"No man could do less for a girl like you."
He bowed playfully low and when he lifted his eyes to her again they read her simple pleasure. He had touched her greatest love, the desire to be treated by men with respect.
"I'll just ask you to show me the way."
"You come by the way, I guess. Just start back that trail and your cayuse'll take you to the road—
"But Alf'll be back. We've never turned anybody out in the rain before."
"Then this is something new. Don't ask me again, please. When you ask a man it makes it very hard to refuse and I must ... for your sake.
"After I strike the road, then what?"