I turned from Didier in a rage, and pulled away my hands.
"'I wish none of your advice or interference,' I said.

'I shall please myself in my affairs.' "I hurried away; he did not attempt to stop me, but stood there for a moment watching me.
"'Good-bye, Marie,' he said, and then he called after me, 'Beware of the storm.' "I had still two miles to go.

I hurried on, passing the Larreyas' farm, and just a minute or two after that the storm began.

I heard it come grumbling up, as if out of the heart of the mountains at first, and then it seemed to rise higher and higher.

I was not frightened, but yet I saw it was going to be a great storm--you do not know, my young ladies, what storms we have here sometimes--and I was so hot and so tired, and when the anger began to pass away I felt so miserable.