“Good-bye, Marshall. Good-bye, ma'am. We'll see you in Dodge City real soon, I hope. Of course. I'll be down shortly, Joe. Maybe it was best that way for Lila to face out her first night on the prairie, not far from Dodge.”
“No, not like it. Don't you fret about that. Is it true? I want to know, Jim. Yes. Jim, if you stayed in Dodge City tonight, well, you could start out before dawn tomorrow, I didn't.”
Jim Cobbitt, a lonely homesteader, marries Lila, an educated woman from back east who has come to Dodge City to be his bride.