After all, fathers did not count in our horde.

Marriage was as yet in a rude state, and couples had a way of quarrelling and separating.

Modern man, what of his divorce institution, does the same thing legally.

But we had no laws.

Custom was all we went by, and our custom in this particular matter was rather promiscuous.
Nevertheless, as this narrative will show later on, we betrayed glimmering adumbrations of the monogamy that was later to give power to, and make mighty, such tribes as embraced it.