Francis Macomber and his wife, Margaret, are on an African hunting safari. Wilson, the the tour guide and hunting instructor, takes Francis and Margot to a sight where there are lions for Francis to hunt. When under the pressure of hunting the lions, Francis gets terrified and runs away from the lions. In result, Margot taunts him and make him feel very bad about himself. During the night, Francis wakes up to Margot sneaking in the tent. She had been sleeping with Wilson. Francis quotes, "You said there would not be any of that this time." This informs us that Margot has cheated on Francis before. Francis finally begins to enjoy the hunting once he succeeds in a kill. Francis and Wilson have to sneak up on an injured buffalo to ensure that it does not mull the next people to come along. The buffalo comes out of the brush and charges Francis and Macomber, when Mrs. Macomber , in the car, had shot the buffalo with the 6.5 Mannlicher as it seemed about to gore Macomber and had hit her husband about two inches up and a little to one side of the base of his skull. Wilson asks why she did not just poison him as the people of England do. She repeats for Wilson to stop it, but he does not until she says please.
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