Oh, I see it all--all; I have seen it from the first; you are stealing her from us, stealing her to yourself, and those who loved her before you came are forgotten.

Be careful, Macumazahn, be careful, lest I am revenged upon you.

You, you hate me; you think me half a monkey; that servant of yours calls me Baboon-woman.

Well, I have lived with baboons, and they are clever--yes, they can play tricks and know things that you don't, and I am cleverer than they, for I have learnt the wisdom of white people also, and I say to you, Walk softly, Macumazahn, or you will fall into a pit," and with one more look of malice she was gone.
I stood for a moment reflecting.

I was afraid of this strange creature who seemed to combine the cunning of the great apes that had reared her with the passions and skill of human kind.