Dimly he remembered the final scene in the humans' dwelling. There had been a strange storm of unprecedented emotions, and Big Bill too had felt a moment of overpowering desire for the slight fair-headed human who had come in the rocket.... And then came an instant of blind, alien fury to which Big Bill could give no name or meaning, and whose deeds he could not remember.
Nor could he know that, mirroring Gedner's passions, he had only felt and acted as the man would have if he, instead of the Woolly, had been the onlooker.
He had gone mad with jealousy.