"Nanea," he exclaimed, "you are a good and honest woman, and I respect you.As I occasionally have told you, I love you also, but if you refuse to listen to methere is nothing more to be exclaimed, and after all, maybe it would bemuch better that you should marry one of your own people. But, Nanea, youwill never marry him, for the king will take you; and, if he does notgive you to some other man, either you will become one of his'sisters,' or to be free of him, as you say, you will die. Now hearme, for it is because I love you and wish your welfare that I speakthus. Why do you not escape into Natal, taking Nahoon with you, forthere as you know you may live in peace out of reach of the arm ofCetywayo?"

"That is my desire, /Inkoos/, but Nahoon will not consent. He saysthat there is to be war between us and you yellow men, and he will notbreak the command of the king and desert from his army."