After the murder of Hendrik, the baboons vanished from the neighbourhood, and have only returned quite recently, so at length we ventured to let Hendrika out.

By this time she had grown very fond of me; still, on the first opportunity she ran away.

But in the evening she returned again.
She had been seeking the baboons, and could not find them.

Shortly afterwards she began to speak--I taught her--and from that time she has loved me so that she will not leave me.

I think it would kill her if I went away from her.