It is best that you should do this." To obey without questioning her or expostulating against his sudden dismissal, he knew was in the code of his promise to her.

And he knew by what he saw in her face that Jean's return had set the world trembling under her feet, that for her it was charged with possibilities as tremendous as if the two canoes had contained those whom she had at first feared.
"Go," she whispered.

"Please go." Without a word he returned in the direction of the camp..