But I shook my head in silence.

“Are you that way?”

“I have not been.”

“The instinct then is not within you?”

“Yes, the instinct is� . But some hounds are trained to range only as far as their mistress, Old Dame Reason, permits. Others slip leash and take to the runways to range uncontrolled and mastered only by a dark and second self, urging them ever forward� . There are but two kinds of men, Lois — the self-disciplined, and the unbroken. But the raw nature of the two differed nothing at their birth.”

She stood looking down at the distant cattle along the river for a while without speaking; then her hand, which hung beside her,