You might not need a man--but I need you. That's why women marry, Elizabeth-- to give their inner strength to some weak man.

If she remember right, people who had a God didn't seem to hold to drinking' an' beating' their women. With a little luck maybe she wouldn't have to put up with that anyway.

Feel fee to be a usin' anythin' in the house, an' if there be anythin' thet ya be needin', make a list. I go to town most saturdays fer supplies, an' I can be a pickin' it up then. When ya feel more yerself like, ya might want to come along an' do yer own choosin'.

My name be Clark Davis", he hurried on,"an it peers to me thet you an' me be in need of one another".

He must be suffering, too. She had noted the weary sag of his shoulders, the quivering lips, the tear- filled eyes. Somehow she had never thought of him as hurting- of being capable of understanding how she felt.

How did it all come about—this miracle of love? She didn’t know. It had come upon her unawares... softly.

True love is born of experience, not fairy dust.