Select the correct text in the passage.
Read paragraphs 4 and 5. Which portion of the text develops that idea that Esther had to make a choice
between love and her own culture?
(4) My old childhood playmate had vanished years ago. He was a tall, slender young man now, handsome as
a young chief, but with laughing blue eyes, and always those yellow curls about his temples. He was my
solace in my half-exile, my comrade, my brother, until one night it was, "Esther, Esther, can't / make you
happy?"
(5) I did not answer him; only looked out across the plains and thought of the tepees. He came close, close.
He locked his arms about me, and with my face pressed up to his throat he stood silent. I felt the blood
from my heart sweep to my very finger-tips. I loved him. O God, how I loved him! In a wild, blind instant it all
came, just because he held me so and was whispering brokenly, "Don't leave me, don't leave me, Esther, my
Esther, my child-love, my playmate, my girl-comrade, my little Cree³ sweetheart, will you go away to your
people, or stay, stay for me, for my arms, as I have you now?"