Others thought it best to let her return, so that a dispute arose and finally a quarrel. Koree, however, prevailed; and so, against her will, she was compelled to fall in line and enter the Swamp with the rest.
But though Koree gained her possession he did not gain her consent. She refused to be reconciled to him, and insisted during the retreat that she be allowed to return.
“I know,” said Koree to himself, “that she has another lover. But she will soon forget him, and I will keep her now that I have her. She will be more easily won back to me in my presence than in my absence.”
But Sosee, thus forced to remain, proved an enemy to him rather than a lover.
“I hate you,” she said, “and will never live with you if you do not let me go back.”
“You will never live with me if I do,” he replied.
“I can escape again,” she said, “when we have saved the Ammi, and then I will return to you.”
“If it required so much time and fighting,” he replied, “to get you once, how much will it take to get you again?”
“If I escaped before without your aid, can I not do so again?”