I will tell you.

When we reached our kraal once more, Chaka summoned that regiment and mustered it.

He spoke to them gently, gently.

He thanked them for their service.
He said it was natural that "girls" should faint at the sight of blood and turn to seek their kraals.

Yet he had bid them come back no more and they had come back! What then was there now left for him to do?
And he covered his face with his blanket.