You'll see how comfortable I can make you, the way they do on the
frontier."
She pressed his fingers for answer and he went on:
"When the winter comes we can move farther down. Up here we may get
snow. But there'll be time between now and then to put up something
warm and waterproof."
"Why should we move down? With a good cabin we can be comfortable
here. The snow won't be heavy this far up. They told Daddy John all
about it at the Fort. And you and he can ride in there sometimes when
we want things."
These simple words gratified him more than she guessed. It was as if
she had seen into the secret springs of his thought and said what he
was fearful she would not say. That was why--in a spirit of testing a
granted boon to prove its genuineness--he asked with tentative
questioning:
"You won't be lonely? There are no people here."
She made the bride's answer and his contentment increased, for again it
was what he would have wished her to say. When he answered he spoke
almost sheepishly, with something of uneasy confession in his look:
"I'd like to live in places like this always.
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