She is likely to be inside in quiet until the trouble is over and the men can go to her again." Okoya rose to go.
"Are you coming along ?" he asked his uncle.
Hayoue shook his head; he still wished to remain alone.
"It may be," he said, "that we shall have to leave in two days against the Tehuas, and I shall remain so that I may be ready when the tapop calls upon us.

You rely upon it, satyumishe, we shall go soon, and when it so happens that we both must go you shall come with me that I may teach you how the scalp is taken." Thus dismissed, Okoya sauntered back down the valley.
When opposite the caves of the Water clan he furtively glanced over to the one inhabited by Shotaye.

The deerskin, as Hayoue had stated, hung over the opening, and no smoke issued from the hole that served as vent and smoke-escape.

The woman must be mourning very deeply, or else she was gone.

She did not often enter his thoughts, and yet he wished Shotaye might come now and see his mother.