Now, without a sign of the madman's caution, he had left it all within his reach again.

A dozen times the flaming suspicion in his eyes had been replaced by a calm and stupid indifference.

Was the suspicion real and the stupidity a clever dissimulation?
And if dissimulation--why?
He was positive now that Bram had not harmed the girl in the way he had dreaded.

Physical desire had played no part in the wolf-man's possession of her.

Celie had made him understand that;--and yet in Bram's eyes he had caught a look now and then that was like the dumb worship of a beast.