I hate to be what is called a clever girl—there are too many of that sort now!

But you shouldn't have let her. That's the only way with these fanciful women that chaw high--innocent or guilty. She'd have come round in time. We all do! Custom does it! It's all the same in the end! However, I think she's fond of her man still--whatever he med be of her. You were too quick about her. I shouldn't have let her go! I should have kept her chained on-- her spirit for kicking would have been broke soon enough! There's nothing like bondage and a stone-deaf taskmaster for taming us women. Besides, you've got the laws on your side. Moses knew.

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

Right now, I'm just a girl, and there is also magic in that.

She's the girl for me.

What does she want to be? A green girl doesn't like to consider this question. She is waiting around to be discovered just for being herself.