I faced Okoya, despite his bow and arrows.

That was more than you did." The other girls interrupted the scornful reply which Sayap was on the point of giving.

They crowded around the two with a number of eager questions.
"What was it ?" queried one.
"What happened yesterday ?" another.
"Did you have a quarrel with boys," a third; and so on.

All pressed around begging and coaxing them to tell the story of yesterday's adventure.

The heroines themselves looked at each other in embarrassment.