Then he looked at Pierrot.

A man half blind could have seen that Pierrot was as amazed as he.
Nepeese had not spoken to him--the factor of Lac Bain! She had not LOOKED at him! And she had taken the dog from him with as little concern as though he had been a wooden man.

The red in his face deepened as he stared from Pierrot to the door through which she had gone, and which she had closed behind her.
On the floor of the cabin Nepeese dropped on her knees and finished unwrapping the blanket.

She was not afraid of Baree.

She had forgotten McTaggart.