The conversation between the father and son is tense and emotionally unrewarding. Honor and Henry assist in the delivery of the child and Honor is sent to inform his mother and the other women of the village, as it is clear that Wild has no intention of nursing her child. We don't.' is mitigated by Wild's screams. Henry leaves the room and after surveying the cabin and discovering the empty jug of consumed liquor, he curtly asks Golden Gray 'Do we know one another?' The impact of the young man's reply, 'No. The father and son do not immediately speak to one another as Henry interrogates the boy, Honor, who explains that the white man has brought the bleeding and pregnant black woman into the cabin. Henry views Golden Gray as 'a whiteman' and equates his presence with trouble. Henry) is 'instantly alarmed' by the presence of Golden Gray and his carriage.

The chapter's second section returns to the scene, thirteen years before, when Henry Lestory (Hunters Hunter, Mr. Despite her capacity for rehabilitation, Hunters Hunter cared for her and he also remembers her 'babygirl laugh.' He remembers her as the source of 'the chief unmothering' and he becomes extremely sad when he considers the brush on his shoulder, concluding that 'instead of resting she was hungry still.' He remembers tending for her and naming her Wild after she bit him. Even as her presence sparks the usual, mild controversy, Hunters Hunter becomes nostalgic. Thirteen years later, Hunters Hunter, is moving through a field and he feels a tap on his shoulder, immediately knowing that it is the phantom woman. (The name 'Hunters Hunter' should reveal that he is the man that Joe Trace referred to in Chapter Five if he cared for the woman then we know that she survives and that he is also Mr. A man called Hunters Hunter is the one who first cared for her when she was pregnant. She becomes a spirit of distraction and chaos: 'harming' babies, confounding old men and frustrating field workers whenever they sense her presence. The woman is a harmless terror for the town, spending most of her time in a nearby cane filed though her intermittent brushes with village civilization transform her into a phantom. After this brief recapitulation, the narrator moves to a description of the wild woman and her environs, thirteen years after Golden Gray's journey. Waiting to meet his father, Golden Gray considers the naked, pregnant woman who is semi-conscious in one of the bedrooms, her body covered by a green dress. Henry, will soon return to the cabin, having been gone for several days.

In his conversation with a boy named Honor, Golden Gray learns that his presumed father, Mr. Chapter Seven continues along the narrative thread begun in the previous chapter.

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