He could not move at first--then he did not want to stir.

He wanted to see what would happen.

He saw her lift, with a tremendous effort, the apparently lifeless body into the hut, and remained standing, after they disappeared, with the vivid image in his eyes of that head swaying on her shoulder, the lower jaw hanging down, collapsed, passive, meaningless, like the head of a corpse.
Then after a while he heard her voice speaking inside, harshly, with an agitated abruptness of tone; and in answer there were groans and broken murmurs of exhaustion.

She spoke louder.

He heard her saying violently--"No! No! Never!" And again a plaintive murmur of entreaty as of some one begging for a supreme favour, with a last breath.