She kissed him and murmured words of endearment.
"Winds, where have you been ?" he asked her, in the mixed English and Indian dialect in which they conversed.
She told him the dog had led her to him two evenings before.

He was insensible.

She had bathed and bandaged his wound, and remained with him all that night.

The next day, finding he was ill and delirious, she decided to risk returning to the village.

If any questions arose, she could say he had left her.