Norah.
[Ironically.] How hollow and empty life would have been without that.
Gertie.
I wonder you didn’t just quit and start out Calgary way.
Taylor.
Well, I’d put in two years on my homestead and done a lot of clearing. It seemed kind of silly to lose my rights now. And when you’ve been hailed out once the chances are it won’t happen again, for some years that is, and by that time I ought to have put a bit by.
Norah.
What sort of a house have you got?
Taylor.
Well, it ain’t what you might call a palace, but it’s large enough for two.