"The king does not stand between a man and his wife.

Say, my husband, that you love me no longer, that I bear you no more children, and that therefore you send me back whence I came.

By-and-bye we will come together again if we are left among the living." "So be it," I answered.

"Leave the kraal with Nada and Umslopogaas this night, and to-morrow morning meet me at the river bank, and we shall go on together, and for the rest may the spirits of our fathers hold us safe." So we kissed each other, and Macropha went on secretly with the children.
Now at the dawning on the morrow I summoned the men whom the king had given me, and we started upon our journey.

When the sun was well up we came to the banks of the river, and there I found my wife Macropha, and with her the two children.