C++ :: Overloading Subscripting Operators?

I have two class GameOfLife and Cell and i want to overload square braket for class GameOfLife."if g is a GameOfLife object, g[10][5] will return the Cell at row 10 and column 5. If there is no such Cells, then it will return a new Cell with position (-1000,- 1000)."

but if g[10][1000] and 1000>cols,then it returns different Cell exp (3,2) How i do control the col ( [row][col] )?

Code: vector<Cell> GameOfLife::operator [](const int row){
vector<Cell> rowCell;
for(int i=0; i<cols; ++i)
{
if( isLive(row,i) )
rowCell.push_back( Cell(row,i) );
else
rowCell.push_back( Cell(-1000,-1000) );
}
return rowCell;
}