Then she must have fallen before it, but instantly the goat flung itself across the dog's open jaws, and butted at its foaming teeth, and sent up shrill cries of terror.
The dog stopped a moment, for such love was human, and it seemed as if the madness of the monster shrank before it.

But the people came down with their wild shouts and curses, and the dog sprang upon the goat and felled it, and fled away.

The people followed it, and then Naomi was alone in the market-place, and the goat lay at her feet.
Ali found her there, and brought her home to her father's house in the Mellah, and her dying champion with her.

And out of this hard chance, and not out of Israel's teaching, Naomi was first to learn what life is and what is death.

She felt the goat with her hands, and as she did so her fingers shook.