Then she thrust me from her with a laugh, and added: 'As for the waiting, you must ask my father of that.
Am I not his heifer, to be sold, and can I disobey my father ?' And she was gone, leaving me empty, for it seemed as though she took my vitals with her.

Nor will she talk thus any more, the white ant who has gone back into its tunnel." "And did you speak to her father ?" "Yes, I spoke to him, but in an evil moment, for he had but just killed the cattle to furnish Panda's shields.

He answered me very roughly.

He said: 'You see these dead beasts which I and my people must slay for the king, or fall under his displeasure?
Well, bring me five times their number, and we will talk of your marriage with my daughter, who is a maid in some request.' "I answered that I understood and would try my best, whereon he became more gentle, for Umbezi has a kindly heart.
"'My son,' he said, 'I like you well, and since I saw you save Macumazahn, my friend, from that mad wild beast of a buffalo I like you better than before.

Yet you know my case.