After she had spent a couple of nights with Silva, our nameless narrator did begin to think about her family. However, this only occurred when she woke up and found that Silva had gone out. It seems that in Silva's presence, she is too intoxicated by him to think about anything other than the here and now.

She goes for a walk outside, and resolves that she must go home at once. Seeing as she had never disappeared like this before, she realized that her family must be beside themselves with worry. However, all thoughts of doing this seemed to escape her mind when she found Silva again. She doesn't seem to think twice about her family when he announces that she will travel with him to Marquez to go and sell the meat from the cattle he had illegally felled earlier.

She eventually found her way home after the white man accosted Silva for stealing meat, and Silva tells her to turn around and leave without looking back. It doesn't seem that she would have been likely to leave unless he had instructed her to do so.

When she eventually gets back to her family, she tells them that she was kidnapped by a Najavo, which seems a highly edited version of the truth.