When it passes, disappearing, low over the brush, he gags her. Then, his fist in the rope at her throat he drags her to a concealment of vegetation, in which his mount waits, a gigantic, swift, shaggy animal, which frightens her. The howling of the hunting beasts grows nearer. He binds her, hand and foot, gagged, belly up, over the saddle. Then he speeds from the concealment, making good his escape.

She has escaped from one slavery, to that of another, to that of a man.