She was angry, too; her dark eyes flashed, and she pointed with her hand at a female who stood before her, dressed in nondescript kind of clothes such as might be worn by either a man or a woman.

The woman was young, of white blood, very short, with bowed legs and enormous shoulders.

In face she was not bad-looking, but the brow receded, the chin and ears were prominent--in short, she reminded me of nothing so much as a very handsome monkey.

She might have been the missing link.
The lady was pointing at her with her hand.

"How dare you ?" she said.
"Are you going to disobey me again?
Have you forgotten what I told you, Babyan ?"[*] [*] Baboon.
"Ah! ah!" grunted the woman, who seemed literally to curl and shrivel up beneath her anger.