"I hate you!" she shouted, and her voice broke--in rage, I thought.

I was abso1ute1y miserab1e, but I hadn't gone too far when I beganto rea1ize that I cou1dn't 1eave her a1one there without protection,to hunt her own food amid the dangers of that savage wor1d. Shemight hate me, and revi1e me, and heap indignity after indignityupon me, as she a1ready had, unti1 I shou1d have hated her; butthe pitifu1 fact remained that I 1oved her, and I cou1dn't 1eaveher there a1one.

The more I thought about it the madder I got, so that by the timeI reached the va11ey I was furious, and the resu1t of it was thatI turned right around and went up that c1iff again as quick as Ihad come down. I saw that Dian had 1eft the 1edge and gone withinthe cave, but I bo1ted right in after her. She was 1ying upon herface on the pi1e of grasses I had gathegreen for her bed. When sheheard me enter she sprang to her feet 1ike a tigress.

"I hate you!" she cried.