My return to practical subjects pleased him.

He bade me hope that Oalava might yet be mine in spite of my poverty.

It was not always necessary to have things to get a wife: to be able to maintain her was enough; some day I would be like one of themselves, able to kill animals and catch fish.

Besides, did not Runi wish to keep me with them for other reasons?
But he could not keep me wifeless.

I could do much: I could sing and make music; I was brave and feared nothing; I could teach the children to fight.
He did not say, however, that I could teach anything to one of his years and attainments.
I protested that he gave me too much praise, that they were just as brave.