He said to himself: "I don't know that man.

She does not know him either.
She was barely sixteen when they locked him up.

She was a child.

What will he say?
What will he do?
No, he concluded, I cannot leave her behind with that man who would come into the world as if out of a grave.
They went on board in silence, and it was after showing her round and when they had returned to the saloon that he assailed her in his fiery, masterful fashion.

At first she did not understand.